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 ...

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

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.

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.

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.

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 ...

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 ...