Last month, the parachutes on Hélène Huby's small spacecraft failed to deploy, and the vehicle and its cargo crashed into the ocean on Earth. It was both a success and a failure.

Space weather probe Vigil will be the world's first space weather mission to be permanently positioned at Lagrange point 5, a ...

European Space Agency-Frazer Nash to develop hypersonic technologies that could apply to future horizontally launched, ...

The deep-space optical communication link could revolutionize how scientists communicate with spacecraft as they explore the ...

The Invictus project is leveraging tech that the now-defunct British company Reaction Engines developed for a huge space plane called Skylon.

The $88 million satellite was backed up by Google and billionaire Jeff Bezos to detect methane gas from oil and gas production, warming the planet.

Incredible first images from a new AI-controlled mini satellite show the Earth as art. The European Space Agency ( ESA) says ...

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

The SIRIUS mission performs night-time study of the thermal IR heat signatures of several European cities daily.

Mercury is a mysterious world. As the closest planet to the sun, it’s a hard-to-reach destination for space missions. So far, only two have made it to Mercury—NASA’s Mariner 10 and MESSENGER ...

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

ESA, the European Space Agency, successfully established Europe’s first deep-space optical communication link with NASA’s ...