If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.

ESA has chosen five rocket firms to compete for €169mn contracts, aiming to restore Europe’s independent access to space.

The Space Act, which would apply to local and foreign companies, aims to simplify procedures, protect assets in orbit, level ...

In an ambitious vision for the not-so-distant future, the European Space Agency (ESA) has unveiled a roadmap that could see ...

A revolution is coming to space, according to the European Commission, which has just proposed a new Space Act. Increasing the EU’s competitiveness in the space sector is the goal of the new ...

The European Space Agency itself came to be in 1975 through a merger of ESRO and ELDO, with 10 founding member countries. Its first satellite mission was Cos-B, which looked at gamma-rays in space.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has provided an interesting prediction for when humans will be packing up and leaving Earth for good to go and live on Mars. It may seem like it's a lifetime away, but ...

French astronaut Sophie Adenot will take food from Michelin-starred chef Anne-Sophie Pic to the International Space Station ...

The legal world of the European Space Agency (ESA) is a strange one. The organization, founded in 1975, is governed by its Convention, a 130-page document that outlines not only the space agency's ...

Europe's Euclid space telescope launched by SpaceX 00:21. SpaceX launched the European Space Agency's $1.5 billion Euclid space telescope Saturday, an ambitious, first-of-a-kind attempt to pin ...