European Space Agency
Gravitational wave mission passes 'sanity check'
A European Space Agency effort to try to detect gravitational waves in space is not only technically feasible but compelling, a new report finds.
Mars methane mission set for lift-off
Europe and Russia are about to launch a joint mission to the Red Planet.
Gravitational waves: Tests begin for future space observatory
The formal test programme has begun on the technologies required to detect gravitational waves in space.
Lift-off for Europe's space laser network
Europe begins to roll out a data superhighway in orbit above the Earth. The first node in the network is a telecommunications satellite that was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Tim Peake: Thanks for all the good luck messages
UK astronaut Tim Peake thanks the thousands of people around the world who sent him a good luck message, as he spends his first weekend in space.
Study may have found evidence of alternate, parallel universes
An astrophysicist says he may have found evidence of alternate or parallel universes by looking back in time to just after the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago,
Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier sheds big ice chunk
Scientists are studying a big mass of ice that has broken off the Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland.
Using the gravity of the universe to peer into a black hole
Researchers at the European Space Agency harness the natural lensing properties of cosmic gravity to get a closer look at a black hole.
Philae comet lander wakes up
The European Space Agency (Esa) says its comet lander, Philae, has woken up and contacted Earth.
Gravitational wave mission passes 'sanity check'
A European Space Agency effort to try to detect gravitational waves in space is not only technically feasible but compelling, a new report finds.
Mars methane mission set for lift-off
Europe and Russia are about to launch a joint mission to the Red Planet.
Gravitational waves: Tests begin for future space observatory
The formal test programme has begun on the technologies required to detect gravitational waves in space.
Lift-off for Europe's space laser network
Europe begins to roll out a data superhighway in orbit above the Earth. The first node in the network is a telecommunications satellite that was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Tim Peake: Thanks for all the good luck messages
UK astronaut Tim Peake thanks the thousands of people around the world who sent him a good luck message, as he spends his first weekend in space.
Study may have found evidence of alternate, parallel universes
An astrophysicist says he may have found evidence of alternate or parallel universes by looking back in time to just after the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago,
Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier sheds big ice chunk
Scientists are studying a big mass of ice that has broken off the Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland.
Using the gravity of the universe to peer into a black hole
Researchers at the European Space Agency harness the natural lensing properties of cosmic gravity to get a closer look at a black hole.
Philae comet lander wakes up
The European Space Agency (Esa) says its comet lander, Philae, has woken up and contacted Earth.