The ESA competition aims to foster independent access to space by supporting emerging small- and medium-lift rocket developers ...

BRITAIN is leading plans to build a hypersonic plane that could fly on the edge of space and travel from London to New York ...

Last month, the parachutes on Hélène Huby's small spacecraft failed to deploy, and the vehicle and its cargo crashed into the ...

ESA has chosen five rocket firms to compete for €169mn contracts, aiming to restore Europe’s independent access to space.

The Invictus project is leveraging tech that the now-defunct British company Reaction Engines developed for a huge space plane called Skylon.

Space weather probe Vigil will be the world's first space weather mission to be permanently positioned at Lagrange point 5, a ...

European Space Agency-Frazer Nash to develop hypersonic technologies that could apply to future horizontally launched, ...

The deep-space optical communication link could revolutionize how scientists communicate with spacecraft as they explore the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA's Deep Space Optical ...

NI SPACE has secured a portion of a £1.6m funding injection from the UK Space Agency which will help to support a number of projects and initiatives across government, business ...

The UK’s space industry is at a pivotal moment. Public investment in space is accelerating, targeting the development of ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...