Among other things, the mission calls for a rover to be sent to Mars and drill up to two meters in search of underground ...

B REMEN, Germany — NASA will help Europe get its long-delayed Mars life-hunting ExoMars rover off the ground, even though ...

PARIS — The European Space Agency (ESA) has found $450 million in likely new sources of funding for its ExoMars missions to Mars, a two-launch effort being hurriedly redesigned with Russia following ...

Imagine catching a fleeting glimpse of a visitor from beyond your known neighbourhood, a traveller moving at impossible speeds, and then trying to plot its exact route. That's the challenge ...

PARIS — European Space Agency (ESA) governments, led by Italy, have agreed to finance early work in 2008 on a $1.5-billion Mars rover mission that likely will feature participation by the United ...

NASA’s Mars 2020 rover isn’t the only robotic explorer set to head to the Red Planet this year. It will also be joined by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosalind Franklin rover, as part of the ESA ...

Late last year the European Space Agency doubled down on its Mars mission, dedicating half a billion euros to the next phase of its Exomars 2020 program — and now we are seeing the benefits of that ...

Europe and Russia's ExoMars rover has been assigned its destination on the Red Planet. The robot explorer will almost certainly land on Oxia Planum -- a site rich in iron-magnesium clays near the ...

From Fukushima to the darkest corners of the ocean, robots built for extreme environments and an appetite for discovery continue to enlighten our understanding of places too dangerous to tread. Those ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said in a message posted on Thursday, March 12, that it needs more time to complete all of the necessary tests on its spacecraft and ...

Finding past or present microbial life on Mars would without doubt be one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time. And in just two years’ time, there’s a big opportunity to do so, with two ...

The ExoMars 2016 mission gets a solid "A" thus far despite the failure of its Schiaparelli lander to touch down softly on the Red Planet, European Space Agency (ESA) officials said. Schiaparelli ...