Articles about European Space Agency

Solar Orbiter blasts off on a mission to study the sources of the sun’s power from pole to pole

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft was launched tonight to begin a seven-year, $1.5 billion mission aimed at studying the sun and… Read More

The world’s space agencies focus in on their roles for Gateway moon missions

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Not everyone has signed on the dotted line to join NASA’s plan to start sending astronauts to… Read More

SpaceX reports a ‘bug’ in its alert system after ESA shifts spacecraft to avoid Starlink satellite collision

The European Space Agency says it performed a collision avoidance maneuver over the Labor Day weekend to head off a… Read More

The moon in 2069: Top space scientists share their visions for lunar lifestyles

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Fifty years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 11 mission transformed the idea of putting people on the… Read More

Sweet! Scientists narrow down source of mysterious burst of methane on Mars

It may sound like an April Fool’s joke about flatulent aliens, but this is serious: The scientists behind the European… Read More

Bye-bye, BepiColombo: Rocket’s red glare kicks off a marathon mission to Mercury

A mission to the planet Mercury got off to a flashy start with tonight’s launch of an Ariane 5 heavy-lift… Read More

Mars Express delivers radar evidence of hidden lake at Red Planet’s south pole

Radar readings from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter point to the location of what appears to be a… Read More

Animated GIF shows ‘snow’ on Rosetta’s comet – and sends chills around the world

It’s been 19 months since the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ended, but the probe’s pictures stirred… Read More

Mars orbital image shows Schiaparelli lander’s crash site in inglorious color

High-resolution color images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the spot where the European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli lander crashed – in black… Read More

What went wrong with Europe’s Mars lander? Signs point to parachute

The European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli lander apparently crashed after its parachute was ejected too early and its thrusters switched off too soon,… Read More

European Space Agency hails orbiter’s arrival at Mars but loses track of lander

For the first time in 13 years, the European Space Agency has put a spacecraft in orbit around Mars –… Read More

A virtual marketplace for a future Moon Village? The FAA just might make it happen

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – If the world wants to create a village on the moon, the Federal Aviation Administration is willing to… Read More

First map from Europe’s Gaia satellite charts a billion stars in our Milky Way

The team behind the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite has released its first catalog of more than a billion stars in… Read More

Pow! Rosetta probe spots comet eruption

The scientists behind the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to a comet today released an amazing series of pictures showing… Read More

Moon Village vs. Journey to Mars: Which space vision will the next president pick?

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Over the past eight years, the focus of NASA’s space vision has shifted from the moon,… Read More

Space race! British astronaut Tim Peake gets set to run marathon on space station

British astronaut Tim Peake says he’ll follow in the footsteps of NASA’s Sunita Williams by running a marathon in orbit on… Read More

LISA Pathfinder blasts off to blaze a trail for relativity’s biggest test

The LISA Pathfinder probe is heading for a vantage point a million miles from Earth to help look for gravitational waves and… Read More

Here are some rad pictures of today’s solar eclipse in Europe

Here in North America we’re missing out on one of the coolest solar eclipses in recent history, but our friends… Read More

Rosetta makes ‘closest-ever’ flyby of comet, more spectacular pictures to come this summer

The European Space Agency has reported that spacecraft Rosetta has made its “closest-ever encounter” with a comet. Rosetta came within… Read More