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

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.

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla has completed his planned two-weeks stay onboard the International Space Station (ISS) on ...

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

Shukla is the first Indian to be onboard the International Space Station (ISS) and the second astronaut from the country, ...

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 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 ...