Smoke from Canadian wildfires is seen reaching Europe in this satellite image June 26, 2023. NASA Earth Observatory Mark Parrington, a senior scientist with the ...

The European Space Agency launched its star-surveying satellite Gaia into space Thursday, hoping to produce the most accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way and to better understand the ...

A dry winter, following an even drier summer, has left much of Europe fearing another extended drought. Striking satellite images show just how much lakes in Spain and France have shrunk, pushing ...

The European Space Agency plans to launch its Gaia surveyor mission towards the end of this year. The satellite will map the positions on the sky of a billion stars, providing new insights on the ...

PARIS – The European Space Agency has launched into orbit a fifth Sentinel satellite as part of its Copernicus earth observation program. The 1.1 ton Sentinel-2B was successfully launched from ...

Europe plans to launch Eagle-1, the first space-based quantum key distribution system for the European Union, in 2024, which could lead to an ultrasecure communications network.

Galileo, an ambitious European satellite network, will need more public money if it is to get off the ground on time, according to the European Commission. The Commission said the road map for ...

Europe's newest Earth-observation satellite has taken flight. The Sentinel-3B spacecraft rode to orbit today atop a Rockot rocket, which lifted off from Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome, about 500 ...

BERLIN (AP) – The European Space Agency has launched a satellite that it hopes will produce the most accurate three-dimensional map of our part of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency says its Ga… ...