The satellite, named Biomass, launched with a rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, New Guinea, and separated from the ...

A huge family of newborn stars seem to now be going their separate ways: Over 1,000 stars are hurriedly fleeing their nest in ...

The Biomass satellite will measure the trunks, branches and stems of the trees that populate the planet's forests. ESA says ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the ...

A Vega C rocket successfully launched an Earth science satellite for the European Space Agency, a mission officials said was ...

At the risk of understating the case, Europe has been shaken by recent geopolitical events. ‘Great power politics’ is back, ...

Earth's forests, vital for climate regulation, face threats from deforestation and degradation. To address this, ESA launched ...

These have long been the images we’ve seen from the surface of Mars, massive unrelenting deserts as far as the eye… or rather ...

Scientists may have discovered where gold came from in the early universe, according to a new study. Researchers revealed ...

“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 ...

Dead stars may have started churning out vast amounts of gold much earlier in the universe than previously thought, a new ...

A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just been revealed as a major ...