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

Last June, all 23 European Space Agency member states unanimously approved collaboration with South Korea. The same applies ...

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

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

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.

The European Space Agency has formed its fourth class since 1978 with 5 Europeans who have completed basic astronaut training along with a graduate from the Australian Space Agency.

A European Space Agency satellite reentered Earth’s atmosphere over the North Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Hawaii Wednesday afternoon and there have been no reports of damage, according to ...

The European Space Agency released five new images from the Euclid space telescope last week, showing some of the clearest images of the cosmos captured to date. The release, ...

The European Space Agency in October finalized a global Zero Debris Charter calling on nations and organizations to commit to actions that would severely limit the amount of space debris floating ...

The European Space Agency itself came to be in 1975 through a merger of ESRO and ELDO, with 10 founding member countries. Its first satellite mission was Cos-B, which looked at gamma-rays in space.

The legal world of the European Space Agency (ESA) is a strange one. The organization, founded in 1975, is governed by its Convention, a 130-page document that outlines not only the space agency's ...