The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA's Deep Space Optical ...

On July 12, 1989, the European Space Agency launched an experimental communications satellite named Olympus-1. It was the ...

As Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), featuring Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, prepares to undock from the International Space Station ...

ESA has chosen five rocket firms to compete for €169mn contracts, aiming to restore Europe’s independent access to space.

The European Space Agency itself came to be in 1975 through a merger of ESRO and ELDO, with 10 founding member countries. Its first satellite mission was Cos-B, which looked at gamma-rays in space.

The legal world of the European Space Agency (ESA) is a strange one. The organization, founded in 1975, is governed by its Convention, a 130-page document that outlines not only the space agency's ...

Watch as the Axiom Mission 4 crew begin final preparations for their return to Earth aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft ...

The European Space Agency has formed its fourth class since 1978 with 5 Europeans who have completed basic astronaut training along with a graduate from the Australian Space Agency.

Europe's Euclid space telescope launched by SpaceX 00:21. SpaceX launched the European Space Agency's $1.5 billion Euclid space telescope Saturday, an ambitious, first-of-a-kind attempt to pin ...

After tracking the dead satellite, the European Space Agency confirmed the satellite had returned to earth by about 2:30 p.m. ET. The Agency launched the Heritage ERS-2 satellite in 1995 after its ...