Beagle 2 cost about $120 million, one-third of which was provided by the UK government. The total cost of the Mars Express mission, which blasted off in June 2003, ...

Beagle 2 after separation, on the left. (Image credit: ESA, CC BY-SA) In November 2014, Croon noted possible identification of the lander in the image he had requested, and asked for repeat imaging.

Beagle 2 transmits at a frequency of 401.56 Mhz. There are a number of possible explanations for Beagle's failure to call home. Perhaps the most likely is that Beagle 2 landed off course, ...

Beagle 2 hitched its 240-million-mile (400 million km) ride to the Red Planet aboard Mars Express, a boxy, 1-ton spacecraft bristling with eight scientific instruments to map Mars at resolutions ...

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 ...

The Beagle 2 Mars Lander, the United Kingdom’s landing spacecraft that went AWOL on Mars in 2003, has been located in images captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Beagle 2 Mission Manager, Mark Sims, speaks in front of an image of Mars during a news conference in London, January 16, 2015. Toby Melville/Reuters ...

UK Mars lander Beagle 2 spotted on Martian surface, 12 yeas after failing to radio controllers on Earth after its journey to the red planet’s surface.

In December 2003, the European Space Agency’s Beagle-2 lander was dropped to Mars by the Mars Express Orbiter. The craft was meant to search for life on the planet. Scientists expected to ...

Beagle 2 hitched a ride on the European Space Agency’s Mar Express mission and was the brainchild of Professor Colin Pillinger, a planetary scientist at the Open University who died last year ...

Beagle 2 was supposed to emit a nine-note tune from the surface to the American spacecraft Mars Odyssey, which has been in orbit around the planet since 2001.