All news on the topic: European Space Agency (ESA)

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Watch NASA's SpaceX Dragon crew prepare to return to Earth from space station
NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 splashed down off the coast of Florida in a Dragon spacecraft Tuesday morning after spending about six months aboard the International Space Station
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Satellite to come crashing down to Earth after 30 years in space today
After almost three decades in space, the ERS-2 satellite, launched into the stars back in 1995, is set to come burning down to Earth today - thought to be around 3.30pm GMT
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Dead satellite will crash back to Earth next week - and no one knows where
The European Remote Sensing 2 satellite (ERS-2) is set to make a crash landing back into the Earth's atmosphere in the early hours of Wednesday, the ESA claims
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Baby star's first 'screams' are captured in incredible NASA image
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the 'screams' of a baby star in astronomical region HH212, around 1,300 lightyears away in the constellation Orion
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Stunning stars and galaxies captured after space telescope's million-mile trip
European space telescope Euclid has captured amazing images of stars and galaxies after being sent on a million-mile journey to better understand dark energy and matter
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'Impossible satellite' will crash down on Earth today - but we don't know where
Aeolus has been in orbit since 2018 and was the first spacecraft to measure our planet's winds from space but now it has run out of fuel
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Thousands of lightning bolts seen crackling over Europe in new satellite image
As Brits brace for thunderstorms, brand new satellite footage hailed as the first of its kind in Europe shows multiple bolts of lightning racing across our skies
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Mars footage to be streamed today for first time in human history - watch live
It will take 18 minutes for the images to be beamed an incredible 140 million miles back to Earth from the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft, with the YouTube stream updating every 50 seconds
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Jupiter rocket to search for life on moons blasts off in vital space mission
The six-tonne probe, named Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer), has blasted off on Thursday to the solar system's biggest planet to see if its ocean-bearing moons support life
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Rocket mission to search for life on Jupiter's moons aborted as launch delayed
The Ariane 5 launch with the European Space Agency's Jupiter-bound JUICE mission has been called off for the day due to the risk of lightning at the launch site in French Guiana
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Mission to find alien life on Jupiter is full steam ahead as rocket to fire off
The Ariane 5 rocket is planned to launch at 1.15pm UK time from the European Space Agency's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, a French territory on the northeast coast of South America
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Plans to grow food on the moon - just like Matt Damon did in The Martian
Shoppers in the UK may be struggling to get their hands on fresh fruit and veg right now but the surface of Moon could soon have a thriving selection with a futuristic lunar farm, scientists claim
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Amateur astronomer spots new galaxy so faint even NASA scientists missed it
Giuseppe Donatiello saw the dwarf galaxy now named Donatiello II by trawling through image after image. He spotted the faint image in one of thousands
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UK's star of space Major Tim Peake retires as European Space Agency astronaut
The astronaut - who is one of just a small handful of Brits to ever voyage to outer space - said it was time to step down but wouldn't rule out another trip
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Rocket blasts off from Cornwall in first-ever orbital mission launched from UK
Named in tribute to The Rolling Stones’ hit, the mission involves a repurposed Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 aircraft and Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket. Several satellites were blasted into space tonight