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…
The ESA is developing its own spacecraft capable of re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. The reusable spacecraft is called the Space…
We've learned a lot about Mars in recent years. Multiple orbiters and hugely-successful rover missions have delivered a cascade of…
If you're not a chemist, an astrobiologist, or a scientist of any sort, and that includes most of us, then…
Billions of years ago, Mars was likely a much warmer and wetter place than the cold, dry, barren world we…
Strictly speaking, there aren't strict boundaries between Earth and space. Our atmosphere doesn't just end at a certain altitude; it…