The European Space Agency’s defunct 5,550 pound ERS-2 satellite is expected to break into pieces and disintegrate upon arrival, expected around 11 a.m. Wednesday morning.

ESA and the Planck Collaboration . This image unveiled March 21, 2013, shows the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as observed by the European Space Agency's Planck space observatory.

After tracking the dead satellite, the European Space Agency confirmed the satellite had returned to earth by about 2:30 p.m. ET. The Agency launched the Heritage ERS-2 satellite in 1995 after its ...

This European Space Agency satellite is on a mission for destruction To study how satellites disintegrate on reentry into the atmosphere, and to limit the amount of debris falling back to Earth in ...

ERS-2, a satellite commissioned by the European Space Agency nearly 30 years ago, is set to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere this morning—though the ESA said this poses an extremely low risk to ...

Planck, a European Space Agency mission with significant NASA participation, detected around 10,000 of these cores, thousands of which had never been seen before. (Image credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech) ...

The European Space Agency said Friday it will attempt to guide a falling 3,000-pound satellite through the Earth's atmosphere to make sure it completely burns up over the Atlantic Ocean.

In the first incident of its kind, a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite was forced to perform an evasive maneuver Monday to avoid hitting a SpaceX spacecraft. The ESA Aeolus Earth observation ...

The European Space Agency said Thursday that it is using artificial intelligence for satellite navigation. The engineering teams of the agency's NAVISP program are working with European industry ...

Europe’s space agency will destroy a brand-new satellite in 2027 just to see what happens. The DRACO mission is part of the ESA’s plan to stop creating more space debris.