Guiana Space Centre

French Guiana's Devil's Island has witnessed some of humanity's hardest moments, from the brutalities of slavery to the punishments of penal servitude.

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we may have spotted a galactic neighbor with all the right molecular ingredients a mere 40 light-years away.

A snorkeler discovered a 20-foot-by-12-foot piece of Ariane 5 rocket debris off the coast of Honduras. How did it get there?

Europe's Vega rocket launched Wednesday from French Guiana, an AFP journalist said, carrying a satellite which will help combat natural disasters.

As preparations continue to launch the Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite on 4 September, the team at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, has bid farewell to their precious satellite as it was sealed from view within the Vega rocket fairing.

"Coming soon: a full recovery rehearsal with our landing vessel."

Ariane 6 launched into orbit, but an upper stage problem kept it from completing the demo flight.

In what is an intriguing mix of past and future, an international team of researchers, including some from the University of Bonn, has stumbled upon a surprising window to the past in Kourou in French Guiana. In the clay underneath the new launch pad for the forthcoming Ariane 6 launch vehicle, the interdisciplinary team has uncovered a remarkable collection of fossils stretching back 130,000 years.

After numerous setbacks, the European Space Agency recently announced that its next-generation rocket, Ariane 6, is set to launch in just six months' time. If successful, the heavy-lift ...

Sandra Irish, mechanical systems lead structures engineer for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, has been selected to receive the Society of Women Engineers

The workhorse launcher for Europe's future access to space conducts a trial "hot-fire" ignition test.

The maiden flight of Spain's Miura 1 rocket, twice suspended in recent weeks, has now been delayed until September over fears its launch could start a wildfire, its developer said Tuesday.

"In microlaunchers that balance is on a knife's edge."

The European Space Agency's (ESA) BepiColombo spacecraft, which is in the midst of its seven-year…

An anthropologist explains how the South American launch site for the James Webb Space Telescope evolved

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Juice was launched from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on Friday morning. The probe, designed to orbit Jupiter's water-rich moon Ganymede, took off from the spaceport...

The European Space Agency's JUICE mission to explore Jupiter's icy, ocean-bearing moons will again try to blast off on Friday, a day after the first launch attempt was called off due to the threat of lightning.

The European Space Agency is about to send a spacecraft to explore Jupiter and three of its largest and most intriguing moons. After a delay, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, or Juice, is expected to launch on Friday at 8:14 a.m ET.

The European Vega-C rocket was lost shortly after lift-off from French Guiana on Tuesday with two Airbus satellites on board, the company behind the launch said.