This week’s Business Planet come from Rotterdam. The city is buzzing with imaginative entrepreneurs keen to tap the enormous potential Europe’s Earth Observation space programme...

It features more than 1.1 billion stars and is the largest map of its kind ever compiled.



The fruit of three years of hard work by the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite, which has been scanning the heavens...

Is there anybody out there?



The fundamental question is rebounding once again after a mysterious radio signal was picked up by a Russian t

elescope.

The radio waves come from a star system ...

NASA is counting down to their OSIRIS-REx mission (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer), aimed at bringing samples back from a near-Earth asteroid. ...

Researchers at the European Space Agency are testing the next generation of 3D-printers to use in Space.



Here, at the European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications at Didcot – about 50 miles...

Astronauts have an out of this world job. They see sunrise and sunset 16 times a day, and over the weeks and months in orbit their bodies change inside and out. They lose muscle mass...

"Just like that, boom, we have an answer!" - the smile spreads across astronomer Frédéric Arenou 's face as he describes the latest data release from ESA satellite Gaia . It's fair to say that...

The Rio Tinto river snakes through the Spanish countryside for 100 kilometres, a dark, blood-red stain of acid water and rusty-looking rocks that scientists love to study. Both ESA and NASA experts regularly...

The European Space Agency is poised to launch the third satellite in the Copernicus programme called Sentinel-3 later this month.



The Sentinels are a fleet of satellites designed to deliver a...

A team of planetary geologists in Westen Australia are using latest the camera technology in the hunt for meteorites that fall to earth.



The scientists are from Curtin University and the team leader is Phil...

The United Arab Emirates is working to send a probe to orbit Mars. The UAE Space Agency has called its mission “Al Amal” Hope and has now introduced it to the public. Various events have been organised in Dubai to give...

Details on what caused the breakup of the Resurs-P1 Russian Earth observation satellite, which Russia declared non-operational in 2022, were not immediately available.

In newly released images from its Euclid telescope, the European Space Agency (ESA) has offered a glimpse of never-seen-before distant galaxies.

NASA's latest deep space mission will analyse a metal-rich asteroid to unlock a greater understanding of how rocky planets like our own were formed.

Exactly 12 months ago NASA released the first stunning image captured by the James Webb Telescope, which gave us a new understanding of the first galaxies to form after the Big Bang. Since then, it has helped us shed new light on the...

"Europe has its foothold in space and will keep it," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

The Emirates Mars Mission has been a source of inspiration for young Arabs and is set to have a long-lasting impact on the economy.

NASA launched the first global water monitoring satellite, SWOT into orbit in hopes of tracking climate change.

A free Halifax-based space engineering initiative called ATLAS wants to encourage young people from diverse backgrounds to enter the space industry. The program was recently awarded with nearly half a million dollars in funding.

A helicopter snagged a falling space rocket in an attempt to reuse it – but it ultimately dropped it in the ocean.

If NASA adopts FLEX and its payload platform, it would become the first passenger-capable rover to ply the lunar surface since Apollo 17 in the 1970s.

Canadian researchers are eagerly awaiting images from the James Webb Space Telescope and the potential of new space discoveries.

In this Space Review we take a look at the major trends and developments in the world of Space exploration over the last 12 months.

A Saturn-sized exoplanet might have been discovered by astronomers using Nasa's Chandra X-Ray Telescope.