European Space Agency

Sydney mother of two Katherine Bennell-Pegg has become the first person to qualify as an astronaut under the Australian flag.

This mission gets underway as a new age of space-based competition heats up between the United States, Russia, and Communist China.

DARMSTADT, Germany— Europe and Russia launched a joint mission Monday to explore the atmosphere of Mars and hunt for signs of life on the red planet.The unmanned ExoMars probe— a collaboration between the European Space Agency and Roscosmos — too...

The European Space Agency launched a rocket Thursday carrying two cubes of gold and platinum almost a million miles from Earth so scientists can see how they'll behave in a freefall — at a cost of more than $450 million

The first images of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe comet orbit could provide clues about its origin and how it got its unique shape.

The pioneering lander Philae completed its primary mission of exploring the comet’s surface and returned plenty of data before depleted batteries forced it to go silent, the European Space Agency said Saturday.

Ground controller will try to adjust the Philae lander to make sure its solar panels can catch the sun and charge its batteries.

Hundreds of millions of miles from Earth, a European spacecraft made history Wednesday by successfully landing on the icy, dusty surface of a speeding comet — an audacious cosmic first designed to answer big questions about the origin of the universe.