The most visible meteor shower of the year in Germany is underway and will peak on Tuesday night. Here's how to give yourself the best chance to see a shooting star.
Holding its own against aerospace
giants like pan-European Airbus Space or French-Italian Thales Alenia, Bremen-based
minnow OHB has carved out a space as a national champion in satellite building.
In the German Democratic Republic (GDR) he was a hero of the people, and in all of Germany he was a role model: the cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn has died at the age of 82.
Bringing a new meaning to dancing on air, a nightclub operator is throwing a party in zero gravity, with top DJs playing in an aircraft used to train astronauts.
The search for Germany's first ever female astronaut has narrowed down the competition to six women out of more than 400 applicants. Who will be the first Frau in space?
For hundreds of years, men have kept the job of colonising planet Earth and beyond for themselves, but Claudia Kessler has had enough: the CEO of HE Space is looking for the first German female astronaut.
German astronaut Alexander Gerst used a public appearance alongside Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday to urge children to care for the planet and for peace in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks.
A period of strong solar winds meant that the Aurora Borealis – visible evidence of particles from the Sun interacting with Earth's atmosphere – were visible in parts of Germany and Austria overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday.
German astronaut Alexander Gerst visited the Cologne city hall on Wednesday to present a special gift – a stone from the city's famous cathedral that he'd taken into space with him.
It may not seem a great offer, but for 200,000 applicants, a planned 2024 space flight with no return to the Red Planet is the final-frontier jackpot. Potsdam student Denis Newiak has made it to the last 660.
Update: robot probe Philae, controlled from Cologne, landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at 5:03 pm on Wednesday, the European Space Agency said.
While astronaut Alexander Gerst dazzled the world with his photos from space, German doctors tending to the returned geophysicist are astounded by his phenomenal health on Tuesday.
After 165 days in zero gravity, Alexander Gerst, who wowed the world with his photos from space, flashed a broad grin as he landed on Earth safely with two of his crew members.
German astronaut Alexander Gerst performed a spacewalk 400 kilometres above the Earth with an American colleague outside the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday to carry out equipment repairs and maintenance, NASA said.
UPDATE: Alexander Gerst, Germany's man aboard the International Space Station (ISS), captured SpaceX's unmanned Dragon craft with a cargo of supplies on Tuesday.
The European Space Agency released an ultra-high-resolution video of the Earth on Wednesday shot from orbit on the International Space Station by German astronaut Alexander Gerst.
The last European space freighter blasted off to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, carrying a special treat for the station’s German astronaut. The launch of the German-built supply ship marks the end of an era.
Among the large portion of the Earth’s population expected to watch Sunday’s World Cup final, one pair of extra-terrestrial German eyes will be tracking the historic match from the heavens.
A family had a lucky escape when they came home to find a rocket had shot through the roof of their house after a student experiment went horribly wrong.
Astronauts could be growing fruit and vegetables in space in the future, with German scientists developing greenhouses for a potential Mars colony. Not only beneficial to the astronaut's nutrition, the fresh vegetables will also boost their morale.
A crew of German, Russian, and US astronauts docked with the International Space Station as space cooperation between Moscow and the West continues despite their worst standoff since the Cold War.
