In what might be a first in spaceflight history, the next crew to launch to the International Space Station has adopted a ...

The wide-angle telescope built and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) has been investigating ... survey of just three patches of sky. Data from the mission’s first year will be released ...

Arianespace called off the second-ever launch of the Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket today due to an issue with ground equipment.

"The Gaia mission has been the most successful ESA mission ever if you look at the number of publications. There are around five publications per day based on data from Gaia," says Andreas Korn ...

TOULOUSE—Scheduled for launch in April, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Biomass mission will help scientists better understand how forests act as carbon sinks, experts said Feb. 11 as the ...

Scientists will debate in the coming weeks whether they will need to send a mission to intercept an asteroid that may hit Earth in 2032. It might sound like the plot of a Hollywood fiction film a ...

SpaceX is set to launch the European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft, designed to study the asteroid Dimorphos, today (Oct. 7). The mission will assess the impact made by NASA's DART (Double ...

ESA's Space Safety program has received permission to begin preparatory work for the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses), aimed at studying asteroid 99942 Apophis. The Shoemaker-Levy 9 ...