Watch this new European rocket lift off … then crash
An effort by Isar Aerospace to become the first European commercial space company to launch an orbital rocket from continental Europe failed in spectacular fashion when the vehicle lost control…
Watch Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket lift off for the first time
Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA) have successfully completed the maiden launch of the new Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket. The two-stage rocket lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French…
Brand new rocket on course for maiden flight this summer
A graphic imagining the first launch of the Ariane 6 rocket. Arianespace The European Space Agency (ESA) is planning to fly its new heavy-lift Ariane 6 rocket for the first…
Long-Awaited Ariane 6 Rocket Faces Tough Odds in First Launch
The hot firing of the development model of the solid fuel rocket motor at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 16 July, 2018.Photo: ESA/CNES The highly anticipated first flight of…
Engineers Devise Plan to De-Ice ‘Dark Universe’ Telescope from a Million Miles Away
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid telescope has been gradually losing its vision as layers of water molecules have frozen onto its mirrors. That’s bad news for a mission tasked…
SpaceX Photobombs the Moon and More of the Week’s Best Space Images
Photo: NASA Crew-7, consisting of (from left to right) Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, and JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, are shown…
Not a Scene From Star Wars: This Is a Real Satellite Falling to Earth
Many Star Wars fans probably thought they were dreaming when the European Space Agency published images of what looked like a TIE starfighter in space. Alas, it wasn’t the Empire,…
Dramatic images show a large satellite tumbling toward Earth
An illustration of the European Space Agency’s ERS-2 satellite. ESA The European Space Agency (ESA) has shared remarkable images showing one of its satellites in what it describes as a…
The ISS Is Getting a New Pair of Creepy Robot Arms
Astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) are about to make a new cyborg friend in the form of two short mechanical arms that will do their bidding in…
13 Things You Didn’t Know About the International Space Station
A Progress spacecraft docked to the ISS.Photo: NASA Every once in a while, the ISS requires a boost to counteract orbital decay and maintain its altitude. While the ISS is…