The Latest Breaking News from the European Space Agency

European Space Agency pushes back launch of Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer project for 24 hours

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is the European Space Agency’s $1.7bn exploration programme for the Jovian orbit.

Move over Mars. The search for extra-terrestrial life in our solar system is this week fixed squarely on Jupiter as the European Space Agency (ESA) gets set to send its Juice spacecraft on an ambitious mission to inspect the frozen oceans of three of the planet’s moons.

On April 13, 2023, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch a rocket carrying a spacecraft destined for Jupiter. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer – or JUICE – will spend at least three years on Jupiter’s moons after it arrives in 2031. In October 2024, NASA is also planning…

The European Space Agency has listed three asteroids which are set to make close approaches to the Earth in the early hours of Sunday morning and one is described as a risk

The European Space Agency estimates there are 36,500 objects larger than 10cm currently floating in space.

The spacecraft will be the first to orbit a moon other than our planet’s.

The renovated headquarters building of the European Space Agency (ESA) was inaugurated this week following five years of refurbishment.

The country's Council of Ministers voted to allow the Spanish Space Agency, or Agencia Espacial Española (AEE), to commence operations on March 7.