An amateur radio operator on an Oslo rooftop successfully commanded an orbiting European Space Agency satellite to launch the 1993 video game Doom using a spoken voice transmission on July 27, 2026.
New spacecraft observations from Mars indicate that the Red Planet is not geologically dead deep inside, but rather possesses enough internal heat to maintain dormant volcanic activity.
The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is arriving at the binary asteroid system of Didymos and Dimorphos to conduct a detailed post-impact survey following NASA’s DART mission, which collided with the smaller space rock.
The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope accidentally discovered a distant, previously unknown comet designated C/2026 S1 while surveying faraway galaxies in September…
The European Space Agency (ESA) lost a full-scale test model of its Space Rider spacecraft during a drop test on October 6, 2026, after a parafoil detachment caused the vehicle to…
Operating halfway between Earth and the Sun on March 2, 2022, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft recorded an hour-and-a-half-long crossing through a giant…
Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite has delivered its first images and measurements from two key instruments just weeks after launch, showcasing its capability to monitor…
Flying halfway between Earth and the Sun, the Solar Orbiter spacecraft passed directly through an S-shaped magnetic switchback and traced its origins to hot solar surface loops.
French astronaut Sophie Adenot returned to Europe on Saturday after a 235-day mission aboard the International Space Station, setting a European record for the longest continuous…
SpaceX warned that undisclosed orbital maneuvers by rival satellite operators present the greatest collision hazard in low-Earth orbit, following tens of thousands of potential…
A 1,100-mile-long Martian cloud forms daily above Arsia Mons, defying conventional cloud-forming physics and requiring “exotic” processes to explain its rapid growth and…
Scientists analyzing data from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft have discovered that Mars’s massive Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud forms through an extreme physical…