As Earth's sea levels rise, it's becoming more important to keep an eye on the oceans, and the Sentinel-6b satellite will be ...

ESA's Hera asteroid mission will launch on a Falcon 9 because of delays in the introduction of the Ariane 6. Credit: ESA WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency now plans to launch a space telescope ...

In 2029, a massive asteroid called Apophis is expected to whizz close to Earth. So close, in fact, that it will come within one tenth of the distance between the Earth and Moon. Now, the European ...

Scientists say the Jovian moon Amalthea, pictured in this undated artist's concept with the Galileo spacecraft, may be full of holes. NASA's Galileo spacecraft discovered the potato-shaped moon ...

Backin February, ESA announced that a pair of CubeSats would fly aboard its Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM), which forms part of the larger Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) operation. Now, ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has a number of missions ongoing to discover and study exoplanets, which are planets outside of our solar system. One of those missions, Cheops (CHaracterising ...

MILAN — The European Space Agency has confirmed a security breach of unclassified material from science servers following ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is taking significant strides towards establishing a sustainable presence on the Moon. As part of its bold new mission, ESA has introduced the Argonaut lunar lander, a ...

For the first time in human spacefaring history, a robotic probe has been placed on the surface of a comet. Earlier today, ESA mission controllers confirmed that the Philae probe made touchdown on the ...

Venus is a tough planetary nut to crack. Decades after ground-based radar surveys first pierced our sister planet’s dense, carbon dioxide-dominated atmosphere, we still know don’t know whether Venus ...