With its lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, India is about to enter a new stage in the exploration of space

It's a technological feat, but the Indian lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 is almost ready to launch. It will differ from earlier lunar missions as it promises to return a complete chemical and mineral mapping of the Moon

Since July 2008 the GOCE Earth Explorer satellite has been at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia

Mission summary and future scenarios for ESA’s Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle ATV

ESA's European Space Operations Centre has been meticulously preparing for Rosetta's rendezvous with asteroid Steins. Scientists expect much from this close encounter, providing insights into how the solar system and its planets were formed

GOCE, ESA's Gravity field and steady–state Ocean Circulation Explorer is due for launch in September 2008 from Russia. Data from this mission will improve our understanding of ocean circulation, sea-level change and Earth-interior processes

Looking down from space at the blue planet Earth, you can see plenty of water. This water is believed to have originated from comets and asteroids that hit the surface soon after the planet formed

Hubble has been serviced and upgraded four times and the fifth and final tune-up is scheduled for October 2008.

The European Space Agency has just closed its public recruitment drive to find the European astronauts of the future

After more than 17 years of observations of the Sun, the heliosphere and our local interstellar neighbourhood, the joint ESA/NASA mission Ulysses is coming to an end