Europe’s new meteorology mission is set to soar into space on an Ariane 5 from Kourou on 5 July. Just 34 minutes later, ESA’s team of expert mission controllers will begin shepherding the satellite ...

Responsible for spacecraft orbiting Earth, the Sun and exploring the Solar System, teams at ESA’s ESOC mission control deal with in-flight challenges every day, from faulty hardware, problematic ...

STORY: Originally planned for Thursday (April 13), ESA had postponed the lift off due to problematic weather conditions. The lift-off went according to plan, with the crew at the Jupiter control room ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft snaps rare close-up images of Mercury during a planned gravity-assist flyby in 2023. Credit: ESA / JAXA A complex mission to Mercury that began its epic space voyage six ...

The European Space Agency has confirmed that hackers broke into part of its digital infrastructure, compromising servers that ...

Japan’s ispace’s will launch its HAKUTO-R Mission 1 on 30 November* on its journey to the Moon. It is aiming to be the first mission by a private company to land on the lunar surface. Under a ...

But scientists are on the case. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope launched ...

ESA’s 2026 space missions will take Europe to new heights. From lunar flybys and asteroid studies to Mercury orbit and advanced satellite launches, this year promises groundbreaking discoveries in ...

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 ...

At the end of July, the European Space Agency de-orbited its Aeolus satellite, causing it to burn up spectacularly in the Earth’s atmosphere. Now, the ESA has released new images of Aeolus’ fiery, ...

The European Space Agency's dark energy and dark matter spacecraft has once again found its guiding stars and is preparing for full "science mode." When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...