The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at our planet ...

The European Space Agency ESA is running an Earth observation programme entitled "Living Planet", to study global environmental change. The programme’s key component is a fleet of dedicated satellites ...

Copernicus is a joint initiative of the European Union (EU), the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), and their member ...

As reported by timeanddate, the latest figures provided by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service show that the Earth is decelerating, with a day in 2024 lasting a fraction ...

Getting to the moon takes a lot of small steps, like Europe's new LUNA training facility. But it's not there yet. Next step: a moon gravity simulator. If you were to recreate the moon on Earth ...

A European satellite that pioneered many of the technologies used to monitor the planet and its climate has fallen to Earth. The two-tonne ERS-2 spacecraft burnt up in the atmosphere over the Pacific.

The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space, capturing a stunning view of Earth and the moon. The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead ... about the same as the height of the Empire State Building. If it were to hit Earth, it would cause wholesale destruction hundreds of miles ...