NASA and ESA facilities avoid major damage from wildfires in Spain
WASHINGTON — Key ground stations in Spain operated by NASA and the European Space Agency have avoided serious…
Airbus to build Aeolus-2 wind-monitoring satellite
WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency has selected Airbus Defence and Space to start work on the successor…
Michel Mayor, Nobel laureate in Physics: ‘People think humanity is eternal, but we are animals and we will become extinct’ | Science
Michel Mayor’s life could have ended in one of the worst deaths imaginable. In 1968, this Swiss mountaineering…
EU Commission plans separate legal act for space agency • Table.Briefings
The European Commission is proposing a separate founding act for the European Union Space Agency (EUSPA). The proposal…
Wild Experiment Suggests Lasers and Graphene Could Propel Future Spacecraft
An experiment on board a parabolic flight showed promising results suggesting that graphene, a thin sheet of carbon…
Some European Launcher Challenge funding remains in limbo
WASHINGTON — Nearly 140 million euros ($162 million) that European Space Agency member states allocated to a program…
Solar-Eclipsing Probe Back From the Dead After a Month of Silence
A pair of spacecraft has been flying in formation, creating an artificial solar eclipse to help scientists probe…
Sun May Have Escaped Milky Way’s Crowded Core Billions of Years Ago
Using a vast catalog of Sun-like stars built by ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have found strong evidence that…
High Resolution Stereo Camera Captures 3D Photos of Craters on Mars
Newly published high-resolution photos of Mars show some of the red planet’s many craters in exceptional, colorful detail.…
ESA announces 100 million euro satellite-mobile convergence initiative
TAMPA, Fla. — The European Space Agency announced up to 100 million euros ($118 million) in funding March…