The European Space Agency's unmanned Rosetta probe successfully released a lander toward the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Wednesday, putting on its final seven-hour journey to a historic rendezvous with the fast-moving lump of dust (...)
After a decade-long pursuit through space
the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft made history
Wednesday by meeting up with, and entering orbit around a comet, dpa reported.
The tiny spacecraft arrived for its highly anticipated (...)
The European Space Agency on Thursda launched a project set to provide the first realistic
three-dimensional mapping of the Milky Way, dpa reported.
As a part of the mission, a highly precise telescope dubbed Gaia will
orbit around the sun at a (...)
The European Space Agency on Thursday launched a project set to provide the first realistic three-dimensional mapping of the Milky Way, dpa reported.
As a part of the mission, a highly precise telescope dubbed Gaia will orbit around the sun at a (...)
Six alleged members of an international gang of people traffickers went on trial in the German city of Darmstadt on Wednesday, dpa reported.
The six men are accused of helping mostly Iraqi and Iranian nationals to travel from Italy to Germany and (...)
Akhir 21, 1432 H/March 26, 2011, SPA -- Japan's earthquake and nuclear disaster
has knocked out the entire world supply of a popular metallic
additive to automotive paint, dpa quoted the manufacturer, Merck of Germany,
as saying (...)
A German court has found a girl-band singer guilty of causing bodily harm to an ex-boyfriend by having unprotected sex with him despite knowing she was infected with HIV but she won't spend any time in prison.
News agency ddp reported the Darmstadt (...)
Hundreds of German couples chose
Saturday as an auspicious day to marry, because it was the seventh
day of the seventh month of the seventh year of the century.
But the ceremony was marred for one couple when the marriage
registrar dropped dead (...)
Europe's first spacecraft to the moon ended its three-year mission Sunday by crashing into the lunar surface in a volcanic plane called the Lake of Excellence, to a round of applause in the mission control room.
Hitting at 2 kilometers (1¼ miles) (...)
The fate of an ambitious European satellite research probe was in doubt Saturday as scientists lost radio contact with the probe after launch.
Volker Liebig of the European Space Agency (ESA) said no radio signal had been received either from the (...)