France is championing a preference European-made space assets related to defence, which some member states will probably be ...

Europe's space leaders were told to "speed up" security missions and launch the IRIS2 satellite constellation by 2029 at the ...

Under the shimmering aurora borealis, a rocket readies for take-off beside a Norwegian fjord. Isar Aerospace, a German ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A flag with the logo of the European Space Agency (ESA) flutters in the wind on the premises of the Kourou space station in French ...

Launched on 1 July 2025 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, MTG-S operates from a geostationary orbit, about 36 000 km above Earth’s surface and is able to ...

The European Space Agency announced Thursday it had secured a record budget of 22.1 billion euros to fund its programmes for the next three years, as the continent seeks greater independence in space.

Europe dreams of autonomy in orbit. Yet, despite growing ambitions for strategic autonomy in space, Europe continues to bear structural dependencies that limit its ability to be an independent actor ...

The European space industry is booming. Yet despite the boom, the industry is struggling to find commercial buyers for arguably its most valuable output: data. At the Living Planet Symposium 2025 in ...

A future where your lights, phone, and even entire cities are powered by sunlight collected in orbit may not be far-fetched. A new study published in Joule00255-7) suggests that Europe could one day ...