Astronaut Alexander Gerst will become the first German for six years to travel to space when he joins the team on the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday. That makes him The Local’s German of the Week.
Two German satellites have been orbiting Earth for the last four years mapping the planet's surface to a level 30 times more accurate than anything seen before.
German and international researchers have succeeded in converting water, carbon dioxide and sunlight into kerosene, in a project that holds the possibility of producing completely renewable jet fuel.
Germany's aeronautics and space research centre has for months been the target of a suspected cyber attack by a foreign intelligence service, according to reports on Sunday.
A €7-billion expedition wants to put humans on Mars within the decade. Thousands have applied to go to the red planet and the would-be-spacemen who want to swap Germany for life on Mars are The Local's Germans of the Week.
German car manufacturer Daimler said Wednesday it pocketed €2.2 billion ($2.9 billion) from the sale of its remaining 7.5-percent stake in the European aerospace and defence group EADS.
Scientists in Bremen are preparing to make space exploration history by landing a probe on a comet - the first mission of its kind. Experts believe that the results could dramatically transform our understanding of the universe.
The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), which owns plane maker Airbus, has unveiled a deal to restructure shareholdings meant to reduce the role of France and Germany but preserve their strategic interests.
German researchers have created a stunning 3D model of the Moon, using 70,000 images from NASA. They hope it will help lay the groundwork for future manned and unmanned lunar missions.
A German satellite the size of a car re-entered the Earth's atmosphere early Sunday, officials said, adding they did not know yet if any debris had hit the Earth.
A German research satellite has left its orbit and is heading for earth, with scientists saying pieces could hit the earth when it re-enters the atmosphere in the next few weeks.
German astronaut Alexander Gerst will fly aboard a Russian rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2014. The Baden-Württemberg native will be on board the station for half a year conducting zero-gravity experiments.
There will be a total lunar eclipse on Wednesday night, with fabulous views of the Moon reddening, disappearing and then reappearing expected across Germany.
Newly unearthed documents challenge whether Wernher von Braun, Nazi physicist and crucial figure in the US space programme, was really the inventor of Hitler's infamous V-2 rocket.
The condensation trails emitted by aircraft may be warming the planet more on any given day than all the carbon dioxide that planes have pumped out since aviation began, German scientists have found.
Automaker Daimler wants to sell half of its remaining 15 percent stake in the aerospace and defence group EADS to the German government, the <i>Financial Times Deutschland</i> said Thursday.
The head of a German firm working on Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system has been suspended after a WikiLeaks cable cited him as describing it as a "stupid idea," the company said on Tuesday.
The United States and Germany are jointly developing secret spy satellites under the guise of a commercial programme despite opposition from France, leaked US diplomatic cables showed Monday.
The night sky over Germany will be ablaze this week as the annual Perseids meteor shower takes place, but cloud cover may scupper some stargazers' plans, the German Weather Service (DWD) said.
German scientists unveiled on Friday the key part of a flat-sided, re-usable space rocket they say would be much cheaper and easier to build than NASA's space shuttles.
The smouldering heat left over from the universe’s creation has been captured in unprecedented detail by a deep space observatory behind which Germany is playing a driving role.
A Russian rocket has successfully launched a new German earth observation satellite with plans to acquire a 3-D model of the planet, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) announced on Monday.
