The European Space Agency’s Mars Express Orbiter recently took 3D, high-quality photos of Mars. Using its high advanced stereo camera, with a resolution of up to 15 meters per pixel, the orbiter captured images of Hebes Chasma, a strange mountain ...

Andreas Zachariah, a graduate student at the Royal College of Art in London, has developed a new device that may help reduce global warming by raising people’s awareness to their carbon footprint. Named “Carbon Hero”, this device uses satellite navigation ...

Engineers from the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) have recently completed the first set of trials of a sophisticated machine capable of operating in space, known as the Eurobot. The Eurobot, which has been under development since 2003, is intended to ...

Scientists discovered what seems to be the first conclusive evidence for water on an extrasolar planet. The discovery was made by French scientists using data from NASA’s Spitzer space telescope and was recently published in the scientific magazine Nature. In ...

This image of Saturn was taken by the Cassini spacecraft on December 13, 2006 at a distance of approximately 822,000 kilometers (511,000 miles) from the planet. The image of Saturn and its rings is composed of several images captured by ...

On December 27th, 2006, the COROT (COnvection ROtation and Planetary Transits) space-based telescope was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome atop a Soyuz 2-1B launch vehicle. The COROT mission is run by the CNES (French Space Agency) with Austria, Belgium, Brazil, ...

The Sea Orbiter – Designed by the French architect Jaques Rougerie, the vessel, containing various laboratories for studying marine life, will be 51 meters high, two-thirds of which will be submerged underwater. The Sea Orbiter is based on a smaller ...