The first pair of Galileo navigation satellites to launch on an Ariane 6 lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French ...

Delays in the development of Ariane 6, part of a broader European “launcher crisis,” forced the European Commission to turn ...

On December 17, 2025, Europe achieved another milestone in its space exploration ambitions with the successful launch of two ...

Europe’s Ariane 6 successfully launched two Galileo satellites from Kourou, strengthening the EU’s navigation constellation ...

Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket successfully placed two satellites into orbit to join the EU's rival to the GPS navigation ...

On 17 December, two Galileo satellites lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 6 rocket. This ...

Europe's Ariane 6 rocket successfully launched the first pair of Galileo navigation satellites, enhancing Europe's GPS-like constellation.

The EU has once again launched its Galileo satellites on a European rocket, after years of being dependent on the Russians and Americans.

We got “Galileo hate mail” here at the Vatican’s astronomical observatory. It was funny — and not funny. It originated, and originates, in respectable places. And it speaks to the broader problem of ...

Four hundred years ago this month, Galileo was in Rome, trying to pick up the pieces of the Catholic Church's recent declaration that Copernican astronomy was contrary to scripture and not open for ...

Galileo Galilei, though famous for his scientific achievements in astronomy, mathematics, and physics, and infamous for his controversy with the church was, in fact, a devout Christian who saw not a ...

Galileo Galilei famously stood trial for his insistence—based on astronomical observations through his telescopes—that the Copernican model of the Solar System was correct. The Earth revolved around ...