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A stunning new video put together by the European Space Agency shows the vastness of the Noctis Labyrinthus, a Martian canyon.

Amazing Video Soars Over Mars’ Epic “Labyrinth of Night”

By Victor Tangermann

The junk-on-junk collision created even more space junk, not to mention a headache for the scientists working on the ESA's clean up mission.

Attempt to Clean Up Space Junk Foiled When Cleanup Target Hit by Even More Space Junk

By Frank Landymore

The European Space Agency appears to be preoccupied with what goes on in astronauts' underwear — and is doing research on it, too.

Europe Worried About Nasty Crotch Situation Among Moon Astronauts

By Noor Al-Sibai

The BepiColombo mission, led by the ESA and JAXA, recently completed an ultra-close flyby of Mercury's surface.

Space Probe Takes Stunning Close Up Images of Mercury

By Frank Landymore

As the European Space Agency was setting up to launch a rocket in French Guiana, an adorable little creature could be seen enjoying some rays of sunshine.

Science & Energy

Strange Creature Appears at Historic Rocket Launch

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency has successfully launched an exciting new deep space mission called JUICE to visit Jupiter's icy moons.

Scientists Launch JUICE Mission to Distant Worlds

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency has shown off a concept for a giant eight-feet-long robotic arm that is designed to pick up samples of Martian soil.

European Space Agency Shows Off Concept for Martian Sample Picker-Upper

By Victor Tangermann

It looks like the space relationship between the ESA and China may be disintegrating before even being officially launched.

European Space Agency Halts Plans to Send Astronauts to Chinese Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

ESA is prepping to send a spacecraft to Venus — a feat which will require state-of-the-art methods to get through the planet's grueling atmosphere.

ESA Unveils Plan to Send Spacecraft Through Venus’ “Hot, Thick” Atmosphere

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you're worried about NASA's plan to bring Mars rocks back to Earth to study them, you probably don't need to be, scientists say.

Mars Rock Samples Probably Won’t Infect Earth With Deadly Martian Plague, Scientist Says

By Noor Al-Sibai

European Space Agency astronaut on Crew-4 mission posted the first TikTok made in space while on the International Space Station.

POV: You’re Watching the first TikTok Made in Space

By Lonnie Lee Hood

European Space Agency astronaut Maurer shows us how to brush your teeth, get ready for bed and sleep aboard the International Space Station.

Please Enjoy This Cozy Video of an Astronaut Getting Ready to Slumber

By Lonnie Lee Hood

An extraordinary image from the ESA shows the Sun from much closer than Earth — and spoiler alert, it's pretty incredible.

Scientists Release Stunning Picture Taken Really Close to the Sun

By Jon Christian

Comet Leonard flew a little too close to the Sun and likely broke into a million pieces during its closest approach.

Unfortunate Comet Flies Too Close to the Sun, Disintegrates and Becomes a Ghost

By Victor Tangermann

The ESA announced today that it is suspending an upcoming launch of its ExoMars rover mission — because it was planning to use a Russian rocket.

Europe Officially Cancels Russian Rocket-Powered Mars Rover Launch

By Victor Tangermann

With the help of the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, scientists discovered a huge deposit of water at the bottom of a Martian canyon.

Science & Energy

Scientists Spot Hidden Water in Mars’ Grand Canyon

By Victor Tangermann

Once the James Webb Space Telescope got to an ESA spaceport, officials donned protective gear and took it out of its enormous box.

James Webb Space Telescope

Video Shows Glorious Unboxing of James Webb Space Telescope

By Jon Christian

The European Space Agency and NASA's Solar Orbiter just came eerily close to the surface of Venus, snapping a series of glorious pictures.

Awesome Video Shows Spacecraft Whipping Past Brightly-Lit Venus

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just sent brainless bits of slime mold to the ISS to study how the single-celled organism's behavior is affected by microgravity.

Science & Energy

Europe Just Launched Brainless Blobs of Slime Mold to Space

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) simulated what happens when a satellite burns up in the Earth's atmosphere.

Watch What Happens When a Satellite Burns Up in Earth’s Atmosphere

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced it is also planning to take a trip to Venus to get a closer look.

Europe Is Also Sending a Spacecraft to Explore Venus, a Blazing Hellhole

By Victor Tangermann

ESA scientists are trying to make shared and frequently-worn spacesuits less gross to wear for astronauts stationed aboard the International Space Station.

Scientists Are Trying to Make Spacesuit Underwear Less Putrid

By Victor Tangermann

When French astronaut Thomas Pesquet will jet off to the International Space Station tomorrow morning, he can look forward to some pretty fantastic meals.

Huh, Turns Out Space Food Has Gone From Gross to “Pretty Fantastic”

By Victor Tangermann

An invisible force is tearing apart the closest star cluster to the Solar System — and astronomers are trying to figure out why.

Science & Energy

Something Is Ripping Apart the Nearest Star Cluster to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency wants astronauts to better represent humanity, so its recruiting more women and people with physical disabilities.

Europe Invites People With Disabilities to Become Astronauts

By Dan Robitzski

NASA and the European Space Agency have graced us with six glorious views of mindbogglingly massive galaxy mergers, courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA Releases Hubble Images of Galaxies Smashing Into Each Other

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency is planning to launch a massive claw designed to clean up larger pieces of space junk.

Europe Is Launching a Giant Claw to Grab Space Junk

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency just signed off on two years worth of feasibility studies, clearing an exoplanet-studying space telescope for launch in 2029.

Science & Energy

Upcoming Space Telescope Will Study the Atmospheres of Distant Exoplanets

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter just spotted something unusual on the surface of the Red Planet: a "triplet" crater.

On Mars, a Crater on Top of a Crater on Top of a Crater

By Victor Tangermann

By analyzing the second 'touchdown' site on comet 67P by the Philae lander, ESA scientists were able to gain valauble insights into the nature of comets.

Science & Energy

Final Clues From Derelict Lander: Comet Interior “Extraordinarily Soft”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA and the ESA have formally partnered up to develop the Gateway space station that will orbit the Moon as part of the Artemis program.

NASA and Europe Officially Sign Deal to Build Orbital Moon Base

By Dan Robitzski

BepiColombo, the European-Japanese spacecraft headed to Mercury, snapped some incredible selfies while making a close flyby past Venus.

Science & Energy

Spacecraft Shoots Epic Selfies With Venus in the Background

By Victor Tangermann

The ESA is experimenting with satellites that use flax fiber instead of steel-like carbon fibers so that they incinerate easier upon retirement.

The ESA Is Weaving Flax Fiber Into Satellites So They Incinerate Better

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency's Space Debris Office is warning that the risk of space debris explosions in orbit is on the rise.

Space Debris Trackers Warn of “Explosions in Orbit”

By Victor Tangermann

Aerospace giant Airbus is planning to bring back the first ever rock samples from Mars using what it claims to be the "first interplanetary cargo ship."

Robots and Machines

Airbus Is Officially Building an “Interplanetary Cargo Ship”

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency's Mars Express, a camera-equipped Mars orbiter, is keeping close tabs on a mysterious, "elongated cloud" appearing on Mars.

Science & Energy

Strange, Giant Cloud Reappears on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just released the closest pictures ever taken of the Sun, courtesy of the Solar Orbiter. And they already made a big discovery.

Science & Energy

Scientists Found Something Surprising in Closest-Ever Photos of the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter probe just made its first close approach of the Sun, getting to 47.8 million miles from the star's surface.

Science & Energy

A Space Probe Just Took the Closest Pictures of the Sun Ever

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have identified a green glow in the atmosphere of Mars caused by oxygen atoms being released from carbon dioxide due to sunlight.

Science & Energy

Scientists Detect Green Glow on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the European Space Agency have created a tiny miniaturized ion thruster that's capable of keeping a satellite steady while in Earth's orbit.

This Mini Ion Thruster Is Adorably Tiny

By Victor Tangermann

A new study led by the ESA found new evidence that Jupiter's moon Europa was indeed spouting plumes of water into space during a Galileo flyby.

Scientists Find New Evidence Europa Is Shooting Water Into Space

By Victor Tangermann

In an experiment, a team of European researchers attempted to use the main compound in human urine and lunar regolith to create a resilient concrete.

Scientists: Astronauts Could Build Moon Base Using Human Urine

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study using data collected by the ESA, the Milky Way is being warped as it's slowly colliding with a smaller neighboring galaxy.

Science & Energy

Astronomers: Something Is Warping Our Entire Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a binary star system called HD101584 after a particularly violent and close fly-by.

Science & Energy

This Epic Star Battle Looks Like Something From a “Thor” Movie

By Victor Tangermann

The ESA is launching a space telescope called CHEOPS (Characterising Exoplanets Satellite) on Tuesday to study distant planets.

Science & Energy

Europe is Launching a Planet-Hunting Space Telescope Tomorrow

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency is about to test if an astronaut on board the International Space Station is capable of taking control of Moon rovers from space.

Astronauts Are About to Take Control of a Mars Rover, From Space

By Victor Tangermann

The ESA confirmed that asteroid 2006 QV89 will not collide with Earth later this year. Scientists don't know where it is, but it isn't on its way here.

Science & Energy

Good News: That Nearby Asteroid Won’t Obliterate Us This Year

By Dan Robitzski

When the ESA launches LISA, a constellation of gravitational wave-detecting satellites, it will likely be able to spot new exoplanets across the galaxy.

Science & Energy

Gravitational Wave Detector May Find Exoplanets in Nearby Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre, futuristic contests invited space agencies and astronomers from around the world to find the best way to colonize the Milky Way.

Astronomers Model How Humanity Could Colonize the Milky Way

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency just tested out a device that's meant to assist in astronaut rescue missions on the surface of the Moon.

This Bizarre Device Will Help Rescue Injured Astronauts on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The ESA plans to launch a trio of space probes — a "mothership" and two interceptors — that will wait up in space for comets to pass nearby.

ESA Announces “Mothership” Mission to Intercept Comets

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency just placed a piece of satellite in an extremely hot plasma wind tunnel to melt it into a ball of liquid metal.

Watch a Satellite Piece Melt Into a Puddle of Metal

By Victor Tangermann

A massive 164-foot asteroid called 2006 QV89 has a one in 7,000 chance of bashing into the Earth on the morning of September 9, according to the ESA.

It’s Unlikely, but a 164-Foot Asteroid May Hit Earth in September

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency is about to test Vega, a new "satellite dispenser" that will cut space launch costs by stacking satellites like Legos.

Europe Is Starting a “Ride-Share” for Small Satellites

By Dan Robitzski

Several times a week, short bursts of light appear on the surface of the Moon. Scientists have only been able to guess as to why the phenomenon occurs.

Weird Flashes Keep Appearing on the Moon and Scientists Don’t Know Why

By Victor Tangermann

Gaia, an ESA satellite charged with plotting the course of the stars, just discovered three new asteroids orbiting the Sun at a peculiar angle.

ESA Satellite Accidentally Discovered Three New Asteroids

By Dan Robitzski

Next week, the European Space Agency will live-tweet an exercise where volunteers play out how a hypothetical asteroid impact might unfold.

The European Space Agency Will Live-Tweet a Mock Asteroid Impact

By Dan Robitzski

See the Most Breathtaking Views of the Martian Surface Yet

See the Most Breathtaking Views of the Martian Surface Yet

By Victor Tangermann

Europe's rocket manufacturer Ariane Group and French space agency CNES came up with a new universalized "acceleration platform" called "ArianeWorks."

Europe’s New Reusable Rocket Design Borrows Heavily From SpaceX

By Victor Tangermann

Data collected by NASA and ESA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory reveals that Earth's gaseous layer extends up to 391,000 miles away from Earth.

New Research: Earth’s Atmosphere Extends Well Beyond the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The ESA says it's studying the prospects of a 2025 mission to the Moon that would use robotic mining equipment to extract water and fuel.

Europe Wants to Extract Rocket Fuel From Lunar Surface in 2025

By Jon Christian

Scientists working at the Hubble Telescope just pieced together a massive survey of the Triangulum Galaxy. Now they may be able to watch new stars from.

Ultra-Detailed New Image of Nearby Galaxy Shows Stars Being Born

By Dan Robitzski

For the last 15 years, NASA and ESA scientists have found signs of methane in Mars' atmosphere. But a recent survey by an ESA orbiter didn't find any.

Scientists Thought Mars Was Covered in Methane. Now It’s Missing

By Dan Robitzski

The ESA has released several photos of a massive ice-filled crater on Mars that are stunning enough to adorn a Christmas card.

Science & Energy

See Stunning New Images of a Mars Crater Full of Mile-Thick Ice

By Kristin Houser