Last June, all 23 European Space Agency member states unanimously approved collaboration with South Korea. The same applies ...

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.

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

We’ve enjoyed a number of celestial spectacles in recent years – from total solar eclipses to stunning auroras – and yet, soon Earth will witness the space event to trump them all. In the next five ...

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.

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.

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 ...