Space weather probe Vigil will be the world's first space weather mission to be permanently positioned at Lagrange point 5, a ...

Last month, the parachutes on Hélène Huby's small spacecraft failed to deploy, and the vehicle and its cargo crashed into the ocean on Earth. It was both a success and a failure.

European Space Agency-Frazer Nash to develop hypersonic technologies that could apply to future horizontally launched, ...

The Invictus project is leveraging tech that the now-defunct British company Reaction Engines developed for a huge space plane called Skylon.

The deep-space optical communication link could revolutionize how scientists communicate with spacecraft as they explore the ...

ESA has chosen five rocket firms to compete for €169mn contracts, aiming to restore Europe’s independent access to space.

Mercury is a mysterious world. As the closest planet to the sun, it’s a hard-to-reach destination for space missions. So far, only two have made it to Mercury—NASA’s Mariner 10 and MESSENGER ...

Incredible first images from a new AI-controlled mini satellite show the Earth as art. The European Space Agency ( ESA) says ...

The SIRIUS mission performs night-time study of the thermal IR heat signatures of several European cities daily.

The $88 million satellite was backed up by Google and billionaire Jeff Bezos to detect methane gas from oil and gas production, warming the planet.

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA's Deep Space Optical ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...