Finally, it’s starting to get real for the James Webb Space Telescope. Engineers are now preparing the long-awaited landmark telescope…
The rocket that will carry the James Webb Space Telescope to space later this year is on its way to…
The most powerful space telescope ever built will have to wait on the ground for a few more months into…
The complex multilayered sunshield that will protect the delicate optics and state of the art infrared science instruments of NASA’s…
A new generation of space rockets ready to lift new and exciting payloads spaceward is coming to a sky near…
Over the 50-plus years since President John F. Kennedy’s Rice University speech, spaceflight has proven to be hard. It doesn't…
ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft on final approach to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in early August 2014. This collage of navcam imagery from Rosetta…
We all know what a big rocket launch looks like from the ground, but this is what it looks like…
[/caption] Europe scored a major space success with today’s (Feb. 13) flawless maiden launch of the brand new Vega rocket…
[/caption] ESA and Arianespace have signed a contract planning the launch of ESA’s new IXV (Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle) on Europe’s…