A barrier tape with the words "European Astronaut Centre" is seen at the European Space Agency (ESA) Astronaut Centre in Cologne. Thomas Banneyer/dpa The European Space Agency (ESA) is optimistic ...

ESA’s Hera spacecraft (left), accompanied by two cubesats, will study the asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos after NASA's DART spacecraft collided with Dimorphos in 2022. Credit: ESA WASHINGTON — ...

The aim of this mission is to increase the number of satellites in the Galileo constellation (now containing 34 satellites), ...

Fifty years on, commercial competition, geopolitics, and Earth-first demand are reshaping ESA’s relationship with founders ...

The European Space Agency is headed to Jupiter – and hoping to find aliens. The ESA is launching a new mission, from its spaceport in French Guiana, facing a second attempt to light the rocket ...

Representatives of ESA, the European Commission and five launch companies at a Jan. 23 ceremony about the the European Flight Ticket Initiative. Credit: EC webcast WASHINGTON — The European Space ...

When the European Union sanctioned Russia for its invasion of Ukraine last year, the Russian space program responded by revoking European access to its Soyuz rockets. That left the European Space ...

Launch recap: Scroll down to read live updates from the launch of the MTG-S1 weather satellite, which launched on time at 5:04 p.m. July 1 from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A. Original story: Get ready ...

The first full test launch for the all-new Ariane 6 rocket will happen between June 15th and July 31st this year. The European Space Agency (ESA) issued a joint report from the Launcher Task Force on ...

The ESA's Juice mission will launch on April 13, 2023, beginning an eight-year-long journey from Earth to Jupiter. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission is important, and the ESA is already gearing ...