The latest data from Europe’s CryoSat has revealed that Arctic sea ice in October was slightly lower than that recorded in 2013. However, researchers added that...
Faced with the very 21st century problem of space debris – the bits and pieces from thousands of space missions that litter Earth’s orbit – scientists...
The building of the world’s largest optical and infrared telescope has begun – on top of a 3,000 metre-high (10,000ft) mountain in Cerro Armazones, Chile. To...
Aeronautical firm Airbus has won a contract to build Europe’s next generation of satellites, which it hopes will improve forecasts of major storms and extreme weather...
Arctic sea ice cover shrunk to its lowest ever point in August last year, but a team of researchers have found that the remaining ice also...
The future of solar energy may lie in alien territory, with developers in the technology turning to space-based regions in search of the ultimate power hub....
The consumption of resources at an uneven and ever-increasing rate is putting undue pressure on the Earth, its inhabitants and its biodiversity, according to the WWF’s...