A European Space Agency effort to try to detect gravitational waves in space is not only technically feasible but compelling, a new report finds.

Europe and Russia are about to launch a joint mission to the Red Planet.

The formal test programme has begun on the technologies required to detect gravitational waves in space.

Europe begins to roll out a data superhighway in orbit above the Earth. The first node in the network is a telecommunications satellite that was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

UK astronaut Tim Peake thanks the thousands of people around the world who sent him a good luck message, as he spends his first weekend in space.

An astrophysicist says he may have found evidence of alternate or parallel universes by looking back in time to just after the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago,

Scientists are studying a big mass of ice that has broken off the Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland.

Researchers at the European Space Agency harness the natural lensing properties of cosmic gravity to get a closer look at a black hole.

The European Space Agency (Esa) says its comet lander, Philae, has woken up and contacted Earth.