ESA Roscosmos sign deal on Mars exploration

BERLIN — The European Space Agency says it has signed an agreement with its Russian counterpart to work together toward two missions to Mars. The partnership comes after NASA pulled out of the ExoMars program with ESA last year due to budget cuts. ESA said in a statement Thursday that it and Roscomos aim to launch missions in 2016 and 2018 to try to establish whether life ever existed on ...