Phoenix landed safely on the arctic plains of Mars today thus giving everyone at NASA a wonderful surprise. It was a perfect landing at the exact spot. It was like making a whole in one from 10,000 miles.The probe has already sent images from the red planet.

Astronomers spotted an unidentified object making it's way dangerously close to Earth and were ready to announce of the impending doom. Denis Denisenko from Moscow realized that the asteroid was a European Space Agency probe Rosetta launched in 2004 on a ten-year mission to chase a comet. Rosetta will pass close by Earth today to get a gravity boost using the 'sling-shot effect', so it can be hurled towards the comet Churyumov Gerasimenko where it will collect valuable data. Dailymail.co.uk

NASA's Messenger probe made its second pass by Venus on Tuesday afternoon, the maneuver will help guide the spacecraft on its circuitous journey to Mercury and give scientists a close-up look at Earth's cloud-shrouded neighbor.The fly-by gave researchers the rare opportunity to pair with a European spacecraft studying Venus."This is the first time that we are able to take observations from two different vantage points."Messenger is the seventh in NASA's Discovery program of lower-cost, scientifically focused space missions.If successful, Messenger, launched in August 2004, would be