Engineering giant Airbus is testing a big harpoon to snare space debris like wayward or no-longer-wanted satellites.



The metre-long spear-like object would be attached to a strong tether and fired from a...

Rasty Salah from Freiburg in Germany would like to know if there is any proof of a multiverse, and would the laws of physics there be the same?"



​ESA physicist Paul McNamara gave his answer: "So it’s a very good...

2016 was a year when space was open to everyone – from established space agencies to private entrepreneurs, they all aimed for the stars.



First, the launch which may actually make the most...

The world’s largest and most complex space telescope is finally ready after almost two decades.



Named after former NASA administrator James Webb, it will be far bigger and powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope,...

ESA officials say more work is needed to figure out what happened

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...

French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is going for a swim, but this is one dip with a difference. Pesquet is taking his last training session in NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at Johnson Space Center in Houston,...

Compiled from images taken between July 2014 and September 2015

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...

The extraordinary mission of “ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft”tp://rosetta.esa.int/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>spacecraft” around comet 67P is nearly over: on 30 September the craft w

ill crash land on its...

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...

Asteroids pose a risk to our planet, and you only need to visit a museum to see the proof. Sixty six million years ago thing we going just fine for the dinosaurs, until one day, a large...

Euronews had a unique chance to visit the Avio rocket factory, situated in Colleferro, just south of Rome, Italy, where engineers are lovingly crafting the next generation of...

With whoops and cheers from the crew, the Shuttle Atlantis blasted off ten years ago with Europe's Columbus module on board, bound for the International Space Station.



Since then ESA's...

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...

European scientists have given up hope of restoring contact with space probe Philae, which successfully landed on a comet in a pinpoint operation only to lose power because its solar-driven batteries were in the...

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...

The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) is partnering with US and South Korean rocket providers with a focus on sustainability and national security.

The European Space Agency (ESA), Arianespace, and French space agency CNES are in the final stretch of preparations for Ariane 6's inaugural launch.

ESA says the "Proba-3" mission will be the first to create an artificial eclipse in a bid to better understand solar weather.

The European Space Agency revealed the first images from the new Euclid telescope and it captured hundreds of thousands of galaxies in a single image.

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

The European Space Agency (ESA) estimates there are 2,000 defunct spacecraft among a total of 10,000 spacecraft currently in space, a majority of which enter the Earth's atmosphere in a natural - rather than controlled - way.