Europe compares favourably with the US on the level of space science it delivers, and Esa has sometimes “gone boldly” where even Nasa has not. Now that Esa has turned 50 years old, it’s a good time to ...

Europe’s ExoMars mission is among the highest-profile casualties of the US president’s plan to slash research funding.

From its vantage point outside Earth's atmosphere, more than 36,000 km above Earth's surface, the Copernicus Sentinel-4 ...

Four astronauts will launch with the Dragon capsule powered by SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, NASA, on ...

Earth has a growing space junk problem, with three sizable pieces of debris crashing onto our planet every day. To combat ...

A performance of the masterpiece will be transmitted into space on Saturday. The waltz has been associated with space travel ...

The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to touch down on Venus. Because of a propulsion problem, it never escaped ...

In recent weeks, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 has been making an ... that it would land over a populated era. Now, the European Space Agency and others say the spacecraft has most likely ...

And according to the European Space Agency's Space Debris Office, Kosmos 482 was last spotted over Germany before disappearing from radar, leading the office to conclude that reentry probably ...