Europe’s first spacecraft to the moon ended its three-year mission on Sunday by crashing into the lunar surface in a volcanic plane called the Lake of Excellence, to a round of…

The European probe Huygens descended towards the Saturn moon Titan on Friday, culminating a seven-year quest covering 2,1-billion kilometres to explore one of the greatest…

At speeds reaching 50 000kph, even the smallest bits of space debris, such as flakes of paint, can cause serious harm to spacecraft. At the end of 2003, there were about 10 000…