The Latest Breaking News from the European Space Agency

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On January 14 2004, the United States announced a new “Vision for Space Exploration”, promising that humans would not only visit space but live there. Two decades later, Nasa’s Artemis programme is preparing to return astronauts to the Moon and, eventually, send humans to Mars.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has triggered a global internet craze of memes, merchandise, and conspiracy theories—blurring science and pop culture overnight.

NASA has confirmed that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS safely passed Earth without any deviation from its predicted trajectory, dismissing online fears of a potential impact or orbital anomaly.

Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite captured high-resolution views inside the eye of the powerful Hurricane Melissa.

With the Argonaut lunar lander and the LUNA simulation facility in Germany, the European Space Agency is building the technology and training to have life on the moon.

New satellite imagery from the European Space Agency reveals nearly four decades of dramatic ice loss for two of Patagonia's largest glaciers.

A purported ESA whistleblower leak suggests 3I/ATLAS has an 'engine-like sound.' Read the shocking claims of an alien object and a coordinated NASA/ESA cover-up.

At the end of October Europa Clipper will fly in line with 3I/ATLAS’ ion tail — but will any of the charged particles reach the spacecraft, and will the spacecraft be ready to receive them?

ESA astronaut Marco Sieber journeyed deep underground in Italy's Apennines for CAVES training

The European Space Agency's ExoMars orbiter has captured the closest view yet of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The images reveal the comet's bright coma but show no signs of a tail.