The Latest Breaking News from European Space Agency

Nasa has recently announced US$600,000 (£495,000) in funding for a study into the feasibility of sending swarms of miniature swimming robots (known as independent micro-swimmers) to explore oceans beneath the icy shells of our Solar System’s many “ocean worlds”. But don’t imagine metal humanoids swimming frog-like underwater. They will probably…

2021 QM1 at first seemed on a collision course, and is about the size of the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor. But Earth seems spared — for now.

A large asteroid or comet on track for Earth would be a global threat. It would require national and international efforts to stop it.

Airbus SE (OTC:EADSY) has secured a €160 million contract for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) FORUM satellite to measure heat emitted from the Earth into space. FORUM, short for Far-infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring, will be the first satellite to observe Earth in the far-infrared part of the spectrum, providing unique measurements…

The satellite will help improve understanding of the climate system, according to the aerospace giant

The head of the European Space Agency says Russia's invasion of Ukraine highlights the need for the continent to become less dependent on other nations

The new data released by the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has revealed the surprise phenomena of ‘starquakes’—massive tsunami-like movements on the surface of stars 

The Gaia DR3 results unveiled an unexpected amount of starquakes, even in stars that shouldn't have them, giving ESA and astronomers a new mystery to decipher.

The European Space Agency has released a trove of data on almost 2 billion stars in the Milky Way

It is said to be the size of a city, with the dark matter in the middle giving the appearance of a gigantic eye watching spacecrafts as they fly past

The robotic spacecraft unravels the history of the our galaxy’s evolution – and could identify habitable regions of the Milky Way