Esa leader hails “milestone” for agency and country alike

New agency aims to boost science and commercial space projects

The ISS is destined to be sent spiralling into the Pacific Ocean in 2031, yet the controversy over the £120bn behemoth continues

The government wants to safeguard the Swiss space research sector while promoting a "sustainable and responsible" universe. Adopting the Federal Space Policy 2023 on Wednesday, the government said the goal was to take account of the “rapid developments in and increasing importance of outer space”.

Nations agree that no one should own territories in space, but legal debates about owning and selling materials extracted from the moon, planets and asteroids are quickly becoming points of tension

The planet, as authoritarian capitalism's plaything, is subject to real-world economic-ecological downward spirals. And yet exorbitant space exploration projects continue to build escapist dreams on extractivism. And the threat of nuclear war continues to push at the limits of tenuous environmental stability.

A newly discovered type of transferable DNA structure with a sci-fi name appears to play a role in balancing atmospheric methane. In Star Trek, the Borg are a ruthless, hive-minded collective that assimilate other beings with the intent of taking over the galaxy. Here on nonfictional planet Earth

When space debris collides with other space debris, it creates thousands more pieces of junk, a phenomenon known as the Kessler syndrome.

If the hydrogen-gobbling, methane-producing microorganisms existed, they would have caused their own demise

Astronomers are delving into the dark period between the light from the Big Bang fading and the birth of the first stars.

Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is the fifth European to take command of the ISS. She says the space station gives her hope for peace on Earth.

The moon contains a lot of mineral wealth-but how practical is mining it?

ETH Zurich is opening a new research and teaching centre with a focus on exploring the origin and prevalence of life on Earth and beyond. Under the leadership of Noble Laureate, Didier Queloz, more than 40 research groups from five departments will address the big questions posed by humankind.

Voyager 1 continues to explore the cosmos along with its twin probe, Voyager 2.

The infrared images, taken in July, capture unprecedented views of the biggest planet's storms, moon and surrounding rings

As NASA takes the first steps to implement the planetary science decadal survey, the agency is warning funding will not match projections.

The most powerful rocket ever developed by the US space agency is being rolled to the launch pad.

Researchers of the ETH Zurich and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS have closely analysed the characteristics of cosmic dust based on laboratory experiments and measurement data collected by space missions.