Articles about ESA

Telescope’s launch makes Christmas merry for space fans, but the ride has just begun

The most expensive telescope in the known universe has begun its journey to a vantage point a million miles from… Read More

High cost, high risk, high hopes: There’s a lot riding on the $10B James Webb Space Telescope’s launch

The launch of NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope from French Guiana could mark a triumph in a tale… Read More

E3 organizers cancel giant video game conference

Update, March 11, 8:50 a.m. PT: ESA has confirmed that E3 is canceled. The organizer is looking into options for an… Read More

SpaceX reports a ‘bug’ in its alert system after ESA shifts spacecraft to avoid Starlink satellite collision

The European Space Agency says it performed a collision avoidance maneuver over the Labor Day weekend to head off a… Read More

Animated GIF shows ‘snow’ on Rosetta’s comet – and sends chills around the world

It’s been 19 months since the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ended, but the probe’s pictures stirred… Read More

Europe’s Trace Gas Orbiter sends its first color picture of Mars – and it’s spectacular

The first color image to come from a camera aboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter in its Mars-mapping orbit shows… Read More

Gaia probe maps the comings and goings of galaxy’s stars – and scientists go gaga

The European Space Agency has released the world’s most exhaustive star catalog, pinpointing the positions of nearly 1.7 billion stars.… Read More

Blue lightning caught on video from space

For years, scientists have been piecing together evidence of peculiar phenomena known as red sprites, blue jets, pixies and elves – exotic… Read More

‘Farewell, Rosetta’: Europe’s mission to a comet ends with a bittersweet bang

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe today descended to a mission-ending impact on the comet that it followed for more than two… Read More

Philae found at last! Rosetta probe spots lost lander stuck in a comet’s crack

After almost two years’ of searching, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has shown scientists what happened to the Philae… Read More

NASA and ESA astronauts post incredible pics of Super Typhoon Maysak

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have captured some amazing shots of Super Typhoon Maysak. European Space Agency astronaut Samantha… Read More

Astronaut makes incredible timelapse video from space

In between fixing things with 3D-printed tools and b.s.ing with Sandra Bullock, there’s probably a lot of time to kill… Read More