In a historic collaboration, theEuropean Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have taken a ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to ...

PARIS — European Space Agency (ESA) managers, with an endorsement from an independent inquiry board, have agreed to solicit bids beginning March 5 for two new space-science missions and extend the ...

With ESA's family of Earth observation missions expanding, it makes sense to share operations engineers across satellites and conduct mission control from a combined Dedicated Control Room. The move ...

ESA's planned Ramses mission would arrive at the asteroid Apophis two months before the asteroid's April 2029 close flyby of Earth. Credit: ESA WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency and Japan ...

Twin mission launches: NASA’s STORIE and ESA-China’s SMILE are scheduled for May 2026, targeting different but complementary aspects of Earth’s magnetosphere. New imaging perspectives: STORIE will ...

At a meeting in Washington last week, NASA and ESA officials decided to first pursue a mission to study Jupiter and its four largest moons, and plan for another mission to visit Saturn's largest moon, ...

Responsible for spacecraft orbiting Earth, the Sun and exploring the Solar System, teams at ESA’s ESOC mission control deal with in-flight challenges every day, from faulty hardware, problematic ...

Scientists say the Jovian moon Amalthea, pictured in this undated artist's concept with the Galileo spacecraft, may be full of holes. NASA's Galileo spacecraft discovered the potato-shaped moon ...

ESA and the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, have signed a formal agreement to work in partnership on the ExoMars programme towards the launch of two missions in 2016 and 2018. Establishing ...