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 ...

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 ...

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

One of the most famous and beautiful cosmic sights shows its colors in this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The Veil Nebula is the remnant of a massive star which exploded in a supernova 10 ...

Discover how gold in your jewelry may have cosmic origins, created in magnetar explosions billions of years ago, as revealed ...