After spending more than 240 days "sailing" around the Earth, NASA's NanoSail-D - a nanosatellite that deployed NASA's first-ever solar sail in low-Earth orbit - has successfully completed its Earth orbiting mission.

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. Data obtained from Voyager over the last year reveal this new region to be a kind of cosmic purgatory. In it, the wind of charged particles streaming out from our sun has calmed, our solar system's magnetic field has piled up, and higher-energy particles from inside our solar system appear to be leaking out into interstellar space.

European science team is set to be among first people to view images from the Curiosity rover, when it reach the surface of Mars in aug 2012 - and they have real high expectations and hopes

ESA had 2 succesfull contacts last week with the Russian Mars-probe Phobos-Grunt, but  has not been ablo to re-establish contact since thursday.