The Latest Breaking News from European Space Agency

The telescope’s development process cost $10 billion over 17 years.

The European Space Agency is celebrating the first flight of its Vega-C rocket designed to provide more bang for customers’ buck in the increasingly competitive business of launching satellites into orbit

European Space Agency satellites have been falling up to 10 times faster than before. What does this mean?

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