On 6 October 1990, the pioneering mission Ulysses, a joint venture between ESA and NASA, was launched on board Space Shuttle ...

Video showing the undocking of Jules Verne, Europe’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), from the International Space Sta...

The first venture between India and Europe took place in the 1980s. In 1981, Europe’s Ariane 3 rocket launched into space Ind...

On the island of Sriharikota, 150 kilometres north of Chennai, India has based its launch centre SHAR, the Satish Dhawan Spac...

Observing the Universe through the eyepiece of a telescope is one thing, but recording the observations for posterity is some...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is currently working on a space mission with important implications for the future of space t...

In May 2009, Belgian ESA astronaut Frank De Winne will fly together with Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian Space...

A new satellite communication system will revolutionise the way Europe gets its information from space. credit: ESA

NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department...

On August 1, 2008 a rare total solar eclipse will appear in the skies over parts of Canada, Greenland, Russia, Mongolia, and ...