Europe’s vision for launching astronauts and robot explorers out into the Solar System will come into sharper focus on 21 October when the ministers responsible for space activities meet in Brussels ...

A panel of independent experts, including former Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has called on the European Space Agency to significantly increase its autonomy in human and robotic ...

Representatives from the UK and other European political, industrial and scientific sectors, together with members of the general public are helping to shape the future direction of space exploration.

Europe-based The Exploration Company is gearing up to compete with in-space delivery providers SpaceX and Northrop Grumman, with the startup announcing this week that it had signed a preliminary cargo ...

Europe is entering 2026 with a space agenda that finally matches its economic weight, coupling record public investment with a burst of commercial activity and new security doctrines. Instead of ...

A European company that seeks to develop orbital spacecraft for cargo, and eventually humans, took a step forward this week with a test flight that saw its Mission Possible vehicle power up and fly ...

Man on a mission. Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director General discusses new space agenda with SpaceRef’s Leonard David. Image credit: Barbara David COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – Europe is establishing an ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is funding several studies that will explore the use of nuclear propulsion for deep space exploration. Propulsion in space currently is conducted using a storage ...

Midway through “Explorations in the Icy North,” Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund writes, “Science in the Arctic was shaped not only by the training and abilities of the explorers, but also by interaction ...