Europe's Vega C rocket launched for the sixth time ever today (Dec. 1), sending a powerful Earth-observation satellite to ...

The agency’s proposed European Resilience from Space (ERS) project secured almost all the funding it had sought. It aims to ...

The European Space Agency member states have approved a record-breaking budget for the next three years, including increased ...

Europe has already done admirable things in space: Mr Schrogl points to Copernicus, an Earth-observation programme, and Galileo, a satellite-navigation system more accurate than America’s GPS. The ...

The European Vega C rocket blasted off into space on Monday, successfully putting a South Korean Kompsat-7 satellite into the ...

At present, the International Space Station (ISS) has been humanity's orbiting laboratory. But its planned retirement is approaching at the end of this decade. The massive station won't just vanish.

On Dec. 2, 1995, NASA launched the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, also known as SOHO. This sun-monitoring satellite is a ...

Light from the half a million satellites that humanity is planning to launch into Earth's orbit in the coming years could ...

Using a high-energy X-ray system, they turned the satellite effectively transparent, revealing fuel and gas tanks, hidden ...

An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications ...