Interplanetary space probes used to be the domain of giant governments, or conglomerates of smaller governments who couldn’t hope to field a space program on their own. Any attempt by one European ...

The UK-made Beagle 2 lander has been found on the surface of Mars, more than a decade after it was thought to be lost forever. The 2003 launch was the result of a collaboration of UK academics, whose ...

Scientists again failed today to pick up a signal from Europe's first Mars lander that would confirm it had arrived safely on the Red Planet. A third attempt by NASA's orbiting Mars Odyssey -- at ...

The surface of Mars — including the location of Beagle-2 — has been shown in unprecedented detail by UCL scientists using a revolutionary image stacking and matching technique. Exciting pictures of ...

The final resting place – and ultimate fate – of Europe’s Beagle 2 Mars lander will have to remain a mystery for now: High-resolution images show no trace of it where it was thought to lie. The HiRISE ...

Science Minister Lord Sainsbury today explained how UK engineering and scientific expertise will play a major role in Europe’s historic mission to find life on Mars. The European Space Agencys Mars ...

A British-built probe which vanished 11 years ago has been found on the surface of Mars, scientists said on Friday, solving an enduring mystery of space exploration. Joy at the discovery was tinged ...

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Time and money pressures, along with management lapses, proved a fatal combination for the Beagle 2 spaceprobe that aimed to land on Mars, an official inquiry has concluded. The British-built lander ...

A third attempt to confirm the survival of the European Mars lander Beagle 2 failed on Friday when a Nasa spacecraft swept over the planned touchdown site on the red planet without picking up a signal ...

2003-12-25 04:00:00 PDT London-- After nearly seven months through space, Britain's Beagle 2 spacecraft made a fiery descent through the thin Martian atmosphere, but scientists did not immediately ...

The Beagle 2 Mars lander, lost more than a decade ago after its launch by the European Space Agency (ESA), has been spotted on the surface of the red planet. New images from the HiRise camera on ...