The Latest Breaking News from the European Space Agency

The writing has been on the wall for years that the UK Space Agency would be scrapped, but will its end after a mere 15 years in existence undermine Britain's space ambitions?

Europe took another step towards cementing its position as a global leader in space-based climate monitoring, with the successful launch of its Ariane 6 rocket carrying a new weather and climate satellite into orbit.

The project hopes to help scientists monitor increasingly extreme weather across the world

The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites and the European Space Agency are leading the scheme.

On an icy world, a glitteringly hard take on sci-fi emerges which draws on real science as well as Hollywood’s cosmic fantasies

Harvard's Avi Loeb suggests comet 3I/ATLAS could be alien tech, but most scientists say it's a natural interstellar object with no threat to Earth.

The European Space Agency is funding the development of a hypersonic space plane pathfinder, which will start flying by 2031, if all goes according to plan.

Surprising colors and stunning features are captured in a new image of Mars' surface.

Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system late on July 1, 2025. The object’s potentially interstellar origins excited scientists across the globe, and the next morning, the European Space Agency confirmed that this object, first named A11pl3Z and…

"A pinch of France in space", says the European Space Agency, presenting an unprecedented initiative: when she flies to the ISS in 2026 as part of the "εpsilon" mission, the young French astronaut will take with her signature dishes from the world's most Michelin-starred chef.

The Zefiro-9 was hoisted in preparation for the Vega-C flight VV27.