The head of the European Space Agency dismissed concerns on Thursday that cooperation in Europe is dwindling as Italy charts its own course on rocket operations and weighs a potential agreement with Elon Musk's Starlink on satellites.

The head of the European Space Agency (ESA) insists that Italy’s move to independently develop its own rocket operations at a time when Italian space officials are considering the benefits of a possible hook-up with Elon Musk‘s Starlink in the satellite field does not mean Europe’s commitment to the ESA programme is weakening.

NASA is considering two ways to get its precious Mars samples back to Earth but won't pick a winner for another 18 months or so.

Global temperatures in 2024 soared to yet another record level, but this time it was such a big jump that Earth temporarily passed a major symbolic climate threshold.

NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a lower cost.

NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.

A photo taken from the International Space Station captures the brilliant comet known as C/2024 G3 ATLAS, which could be the brightest of 2025.

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew so big in such a short timescale."

"The rate at which the planet is evaporating is utterly cataclysmic, and we are incredibly lucky to be witnessing the final hours of this dying planet."

NASA's mission to send a spacecraft to scour Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of life appears back on track after Hurricane Milton forced a delay.

The European Partido Popular (EPP) began this Saturday the last of its two-day meeting in Berlin, in which the Christian Democratic leaders prepare their work agenda for 2025 and an appointment that has the presence of President of the European Commission (EC),

To better understand glaciers in Svalbard and beyond, we used an AI model to analyse millions of satellite images from Svalbard over the past four decades. Our research is now published in Nature Communications, and shows these glaciers are shrinking faster than ever, in line with global warming.