Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, from Queen’s University Belfast, has recently returned from ground control of ESA’s Hera mission.

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BepiColombo, a joint mission by ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, will make its sixth flyby of Mercury in January 2025. This maneuver will help the spacecraft enter orbit around ...

Introduction The space industry is booming, and it seems that interesting new developments are underway in space exploration, ...

As NATO member states struggle to meet their defense spending goals and war rages on Europe's eastern front, officials are struggling to agree on a plan to shore up hundreds of billions of dollars to ...

Quasars are awe-inspiring – among the brightest objects in the Universe, behind gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. Unlike other ...

The amount of space junk has magnified over the years, leading to more collisions and threats to future space missions.

The art of space mission patches is now more than six decades old, dating to the Vostok 6 mission in 1963 that carried Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova into low-Earth orbit for nearly three days.

The Spanish scientist has begun her relentless training to become an extraterrestrial being. EL PAÍS accompanies her for a day in her new life ...

India’s initiative to establish home-grown Earth observation (EO) satellite constellations has drawn interest from 30 ...

In a groundbreaking development that could redefine global communication, 5G technology has, for the first time, successfully ...