ESA had to settle for this artist's impression of the breakup and re-entry of its fifth and final ATV cargo tug because an onboard camera failed to transmit imagery. Credit: ESA/D. Ducros PARIS — ...

Europe's line of space freighters is going out with a (big) bang. Christened the "Georges Lemaître" after the Belgian priest and astronomer who proposed what became the Big Bang theory of the universe ...

The European Space Agency’s ATV-4 spacecraft, an unmanned supply ship, burns up over an uninhabited stretch of the Pacific Ocean on Nov. 2, 2013 in this image captured by an astronaut on the ...

For the last time, an unmanned European cargo vessel has linked up with the International Space Station. The European Space Agency's fifth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-5) joined up with the station ...

The planned launch of an unmanned European supply ship to the international space station has been delayed due to minor cargo packing issues discovered during a preflight inspection, the European ...

ESA are set to announce a new launch date for ATV-3’s launch to the International Space Station (ISS) – now confirmed to be March 23 – after it was determined engineers will have to gain access to the ...

A space cargo ship as large as a double-decker bus blasted off for the International Space Station on Tuesday, marking the final space voyage for Europe's fleet of huge robotic spacecraft. The ...