Tag: ESA

Recent research using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite has shed light on the eventual fate of our sun.

NASA has announced a dramatic change to its Mars Sample Return mission, which will attempt to transport samples of martian rock all the way to Earth.

ESA and JAXA are preparing to launch a new Earth-monitoring satellite called EarthCARE, and it recently flexed its huge solar wing for the first time.

This week, the European Space Agency (ESA) will launch its new rocket, the Vega-C, on its first flight. Here’s how to watch.

The asteroid 2021 QM1, marked as one of the most threatening to our planet, won’t hit Earth after all.

The European Space Agency has released a video captured last week by a spacecraft as it flew by Mercury, the planet closest to our sun.

The European and Japanese team behind the BepiColombo mission to Mercury has shared the first image of the spacecraft’s recent flyby of the distant planet.

With crewed lunar missions just a few years away and the first human voyages to Mars on the horizon, it’s one of the most exciting times to become an astronaut.

Plato is a next-generation exoplanet-hunting satellite, set for launch in 2026.

Dark matter telescope Euclid is getting ready for launch, and recently a module of combination sunshield and solar panels has been added to the spacecraft.