December 10, 2015 European Space Agency sets tentative date for 1st comet landing Nov. 11 The European Space Agency has set a tentative date for the first landing of a spacecraft on a comet.
December 10, 2015 Saturn's largest moon Titan is bursting with color NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has managed to penetrate the haze of Saturn’s moon Titan, revealing a world basking in blues, greens and even reds.
December 10, 2015 India launches first mission to Mars India on Tuesday launched its first spacecraft bound for Mars, a complex mission that it hopes will demonstrate and advance technologies for space travel.
December 10, 2015 Europe launches satellite that will map 1 billion stars, hunt for new planets The European Space Agency is preparing to launch a satellite that will produce the most accurate three-dimensional map of our part of the Milky Way.
December 10, 2015 Fans of China's 'Jade Rabbit' lunar rover await news of its status after mechanical problems China's troubled robotic moon rover melodramatically pondered the meaning of its perhaps-fleeting existence, measured its contribution to humanity and, finally, said goodbye.
December 10, 2015 Swedish castle museum to recover missing rare astronomical astrolabe made in 1590 A rare 16th-century scientific artifact used in astronomical measurements that has been missing from a Swedish museum for a decade has been recovered and will be returned this week, the London-based Art Loss Register says.
December 9, 2015 Scientists begin to unravel mystery behind bright spots on Ceres In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature, Andreas Nathues and his colleagues documented 130 bright spots on Ceres ranging in brightness from the color of concrete to ocean ice. It also found these “unusual areas” of brightness are consistent with the presence of “hydrated magnesium sulfates mixed with dark background material.”
December 8, 2015 China's lunar rover has mechanical problems, may not finish mission China says its first lunar rover is experiencing mechanical problems and may not be able to finish its mission.
December 7, 2015 Second time lucky for Japan's Venus orbiter? Japan’s Akatsuki Venus probe tried to enter the planet’s orbit Sunday, five years after its last attempt ended in failure.
December 7, 2015 Russia loses a satellite in another setback to its space program The Soyuz-2.1B rocket carrying two satellites was launched Dec. 5 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Russian north-western Arkhangelsk region.
