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LISA Pathfinder's mission poised to discover the secrets of gravity

The European Space Agency’s LISA Pathfinder mission, originally scheduled to lift off from French Guyana in the early hours of December 2, has been

01/12/2015

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Tim Peake on what happens if things go wrong on ISS

19/11/2015

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Rosetta and Philae celebrate a year of success for ESA

A year on from Rosetta and Philae's exploits, ESA's historic comet lander mission nears its end

12/11/2015

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Rosetta mission finds oxygen on comet 67P

The Rosetta mission has detected oxygen on comet 67P, a discovery that could change our understanding of how the solar system formed.

28/10/2015

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Unlocking the secrets of the Jupiter's Icy Moons

In this edition of Space we set a course for Jupiter, destination of the next European Space Agency mission JUICE. The aim of JUICE (JUpiter ICy moon

22/10/2015

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Prepare to take-off - training the best to be better

What is the next best thing to going into space? For some perhaps it is being in charge of those preparing to blast-off into the skies. Gerhard

22/10/2015

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Moonstruck: ESA and Russia to launch new mission

The European and Russian space agencies are to send a lander to an unexplored area at the Moon’s south pole. It will be one of a series of missions

17/10/2015

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The Astronaut Academy: 'Things float. and you float.'

“Living and working in space can be a challenge, because things float, and you float. Which is a lot of fun of course, but you have to get used to

24/09/2015

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Rosetta mission: Crunch time for Philae

The Rosetta mission has changed our vision of comets and given us a new outlook on the origin of life in the universe. In this edition of Space, we

27/08/2015

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Astronaut Academy: keeping space crew health in check

Floating around in space may sound like fun, but it can put all sort of stresses and strains on the human body. Volker Damann is Head of the Medicine

27/08/2015

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Rough ride: the physical and mental re-entry shocks for ESA astronauts

The last leg of the return to Earth from space is one of the trickiest and potentially most dangerous moments in the astronaut’s journey.

16/08/2015

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ESA Astronaut trainer André Rosenberger explains how you get fit for space

15/08/2015

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[Live] Follow comet 67P's perihelion on social media

12/08/2015

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It's rocket science! Inside the Vulcain and Vinci at Vernon

Years in the building, seconds in the launching; rocket engines are truly awesome in their sheer power, but are also amazing feats of engineering and

06/08/2015

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Rosetta comet’s closest approach to the Sun

03/08/2015

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The Astronaut Academy: 'Like in the film Gravity'

Hervé Stevenin oversees one of the toughest processes that any astronaut can go through – learning to spacewalk. The Frenchman, himself a former

15/07/2015

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Rosetta space mission extended, ESA announces

24/06/2015

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New EU Sentinel satellite launched to improve Earth-watching operation

A new European satellite has been launched with powerful image-taking capabilities designed to improve the monitoring of natural disasters and global

23/06/2015

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ESA chiefs discuss building a base on the Moon and visiting Mars

As the European Space Agency changes leadership, euronews met its outgoing and incoming directors-general to discuss the future of space projects.

19/06/2015

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Philae the comet lander is alive and well

It went into hibernation last Nov. 15. Now Philae is awake again. Before release, the lander on the comet ‘Tchouri’ had spent more than 10 years on

15/06/2015