The European Space Agency 's (ESA) Biomass spacecraft lifted off atop a Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has blasted its Biomass satellite into space — and it could change everything we know about ...

“Our idea was to use a very special type of radar to map the world’s forests from space. The goal was to understand how ...

On April 29, 1985, the European Space Agency's Spacelab launched on the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51B. This was ...

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched a first-of-a-kind satellite on Tuesday that will count the carbon in Earth’s rainforests. Scientists hope to better understand the importance of ...

ESA sent a bioreactor into space, the first step in manufacturing appealing food for astronauts and a multi-planetary human ...

There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states that debris can reach speeds of 18,000 ...

In order to understand climate change, the ESA has successfully launched its groundbreaking Biomass satellite from Kourou, ...

A satellite that looks like a giant parasol was launched into orbit today, and will open itself up automatically in space. The ‘space brolly’ was made by the European Space Agency, and blasted off ...

Named Biomass, the new satellite, which has been described as a “giant umbrella”, will allow them to examine Earth’s forests ...

A Pakistani astronaut will become the first foreign national aboard China’s Tiangong space station, as Beijing steps up space ...