The Mars Express probe captured a striking new view of a Martian crater that holds clues to the planet's dynamic history ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European Space Agency (Esa). It has launched spectacularly ...

Africa’s first continent-wide space agency, the African Space Agency (AfSA), which was inaugurated in April, is looking to ...

With its sweeping tempo and ethereal melody, Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" waltz has become ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) beamed Strauss’s The Blue Danube into deep space as a musical message to aliens.

Europe compares favourably with the US on the level of space science it delivers, and Esa has sometimes “gone boldly” where even Nasa has not. Now that Esa has turned 50 years old, it’s a good time to ...

Among those skipped was Johann Strauss II, whose “Blue Danube” graced Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi opus “2001: A Space ...

A performance of the masterpiece will be transmitted into space on Saturday. The waltz has been associated with space travel ...

Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" has, for many people, been synonymous with space travel since it was ...