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

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

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

NASA's leadership change comes at a pivotal moment for the agency, which is already bracing for potentially severe funding ...

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.

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.

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

The Space Act, which would apply to local and foreign companies, aims to simplify procedures, protect assets in orbit, level ...

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 ...

On July 7, 2025, theEuropean Space Agency (ESA) achieved a groundbreaking feat in space communications by establishing Europe ...