The ESA and NASA are getting closer to mounting the AIDA mission, which will will test the effectiveness of asteroid…
Is there a more complicated and sophisticated technological engineering project than a spacecraft? Maybe a particle accelerator or a fusion…
The ESA's Gaia mission recently allowed astronomers to catch a glimpse of Europa as it passed in front of a…
Why report on an asteroid that has no chance of hitting Earth? Because this asteroid, known as 2006 QV89, has…
The latest discovery to come from Gaia's years of observing the Milky Way is the first 3D measurements of our…
The ESA is helping a group of students from Zurich test and develop their hopping exploration robot. Called SpaceBok, the…
The ESA has announced a new mission to explore a comet. The Comet Interceptor mission will have a spacecraft wait…
At this year's Global Trajectory Optimization Competition (GTOC), a team from the ESA presented a model for how humanity could…
A new technology that allows satellites to de-orbit themselves at the end of their lives could help mitigate the problem…
Whenever scientists announce an upcoming close encounter with an asteroid, certain corners of the internet light up like the synaptic…