Space research

As EU’s Space Council meets for first time in eight years, ministers pledge to increase cooperation

The project processed more data than any other experiment in history to create an image of the event horizon, the boundary of a black hole, where intense gravity distorts time and space

The world’s largest radio telescope will have CERN-like structure to smooth its funding outlook

Whether or not space programme gets €16B proposed by the Commission now hangs on negotiations over the EU’s overall long-term budget

European Commission wants to find a much cheaper way of getting satellites into orbit and peg back the US entrepreneurs dominating the private industry space race

Plans to create EU Agency for the Space Programme will not encroach on ESA activities, European Commission says

The project will be carried out in partnership with Airbus Defence and Space.