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.

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

What will the orbital spacecraft of tomorrow look like? If Dassault Aviation has its way, it could be similar to its Véhicule ...

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 ...

Hermes managers added safety precautions, such as ejection seats, to the vehicle's design after NASA's Challenger space shuttle exploded during launch in January 1986, ESA officials have said.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is pushing for its members to back a program to allow it to independently send astronauts to space and set ambitious, long-term human exploration goals.

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 ...

ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission’s innovative heat shield will enable humanity’s first good close up look at the Sun’s poles. Newsletters Amazon Prime Day Share a News Tip. Featured.

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.

The goal of the $630 million ESA-led mission is to test techniques for measuring gravity waves produced by colliding black holes and other cosmic phenomena by using a laser to precisely measure ...