With LISA, ESA plans to catch gravitational waves from space, using a triangle of spacecraft millions of kilometers ...

Until now. In March, a spacecraft captured the first-ever clear images of the sun's south pole, which the European Space Agency released Wednesday, June 11. “We reveal humankind’s first-ever ...

Interestingly, the ESA's Columbus Space Station Concept, which Hermes could have potentially docked with, was also canceled in 1991. Its design was integrated into the ISS in 2008.

As the European Space Agency (ESA) approaches its 50th anniversary, its ambitions for lunar exploration are taking a sharp turn. Against the backdrop of growing geopolitical tension and an ...

Europe compares favourably with the US on the level of space science it delivers, and Esa has sometimes “gone boldly” where even Nasa has not. Now that Esa has turned 50 years old, it’s a good time to ...

According to ESA, DRACO will weigh in at 200 kg and have no propulsion or navigation system. It will instead rely on its launcher to line it up for re-entry, no more than 12 hours after launch.

2 spacecrafts will create 'solar eclipses on demand.' No, you can’t see them from Earth. The European Space Agency's Proba-3 satellites look to create artificial solar eclipses that will allow ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera spacecraft lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 10:52 a.m. ET on Monday.

A previous artificial eclipse, produced by the US Apollo spacecraft during the Apollo–Soyuz mission back in 1975. Now a new team will create the events at will. See fact box below.

ESA's Gaia spacecraft 'gives best insight yet' of what the Milky Way looks like The ‘ground-breaking’ Gaia spacecraft completes its sky-skanning today after its decade long service in space.

Dec. 5 (UPI) --The European Space Agency said that two spacecraft were launched from India on Thursday designed to form a single ship that will create an artificial solar eclipse while in orbit ...

ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is ultimately headed for the Jovian system, but on Aug. 20, it took a quick look at Earth. The spacecraft returned some very exciting news: the Earth is ...