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Some of you probably wish you could be onboard BepiColombo right now, as the space probe whizzes far away from…

Unfinished tests and complications arising from the coronavirus pandemic have forced the European Space Agency and…

On Sunday, the European Space Agency hopes to launch its Solar Orbiter in order to better understand a star we know…

Come away from the haunting, dad-issue-laden sci-fi drama of Ad Astra looking for something else in that vein? Well,…

A new image of dunes on the Martian north pole looks a lot like a candy bar.

The European Space Agency was forced to perform a “collision avoidance maneuver” to prevent its Aeolus spacecraft…

An astrophotographer has spotted what looks to be a moon orbiting the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the target of…

July 20, 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the date when Apollo 11 crewmembers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became…

Breaking news for all you doomsday lovers out there: The 20-50 meter asteroid 2006 QV8 will NOT hit the Earth on…

With the historic Rosetta mission now firmly in the rear view mirror, the European Space Agency has set its sights…

Mars is lacking in the vast supply of natural resources we’ve come to rely on here on Earth, and astronauts…

The BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), which is currently on an ambitious mission to the best planet with a…

The internet is full of important life lessons; things you really shouldn’t do, like lighting yourself on fire for a…

The world’s most advanced air pollution monitoring satellite recently sent back its first images, illustrating the…

So far, 2017 hasn’t exactly been a great year, but if you look hard enough, you’ll find the world is still filled…

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Galileo satellites have been having a bad time for the past 17 years. Now, the 10…

Landing on Mars is hard, but the European Space Agency’s first attempt—the Beagle 2 probe—came maddeningly close to…

A joint mission led by the European Space Agency and Roscosmos arrives at Mars next week, and its first order of…

After two years of science, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission ended today in a gentle crash-landing. But…

The Rosetta spacecraft has spent three years peering at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from orbit—but this week,…