The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA's Deep Space Optical ...

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

The Grammy winner pleaded not guilty to two further charges related to the serious beating of a music producer with a bottle ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is advancing on its ambitions for future space transportation. This week, the agency has ...

Two small spaceports in the far north of Sweden and Norway are racing to launch the first satellites from mainland Europe ...

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

Human-caused climate change made recent European heatwaves up to 4C hotter in many cities, scientists said on Wednesday, ...

Scientists warn heatwaves are ‘quietly devastating’ and show how dangerous climate change already is with 1.3C of global warming.

The flares may heat up and inflate the planet's atmosphere, which is dominated by hydrogen and helium. Being lashed by these ...

Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our Solar System -- only the third ...

On July 2, 1985, the European Space Agency launched the Giotto space probe to get a close-up look at Halley's Comet. Nearly ...