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august 24, 2015 - European Space Agency

ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen from Denmark will soon be launched to the International Space Station, the first Danish astronaut to fly to space. Named IRISS, the mission will last ten days from launc...



august 20, 2015 - European Space Agency

This new image of powerful remnants of dead stars and their mighty action on the surrounding gas from ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory reveals some of the most intense processes taking place at the ...



august 12, 2015 - European Space Agency

Last week ESA’s Rosetta mission celebrated one year at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and this 13 August the Comet will be at perihelion, the point on its 6.5year orbit that takes it closest to the S...



august 06, 2015 - European Space Agency

ESA’s Rosetta mission today celebrates one year at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, with its closest approach to the Sun now just one week away. It’s been a long but exciting journey for Rosetta sinc...



july 30, 2015 - European Space Agency

ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli will be heading for space a third time, as part of Expeditions 52 and 53 to the International Space Station. He will be launched on a Soyuz vehicle in May 2017 on a five-m...



july 30, 2015 - European Space Agency

Every summer, ESA’s Education Office welcomes primary and secondary teachers from across Europe to ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre, The Netherlands. Over the course of three days, ...



july 21, 2015 - European Space Agency

Measurements from ESA’s CryoSat satellite show that the volume of Arctic sea ice increased by a third following the unusually cool summer of 2013. This new finding suggests that ice in the northern he...



july 09, 2015 - European Space Agency

The ghostly shells of galaxy ESO 381-12 are captured here in a new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, set against a backdrop of distant galaxies. The strikingly uneven structure and the c...



july 07, 2015 - European Space Agency

The Integral, Fermi and Swift space observatories have used the magnifying power of a cosmic lens to explore the inner regions of a supermassive black hole. Gamma rays are highly energetic radiation e...



july 02, 2015 - European Space Agency

While ESA’s water mission continues to deliver key information on soil moisture and ocean salinity to advance our understanding of Earth, it is becoming increasingly important for ‘real world’ applica...



july 02, 2015 - European Space Agency

A number of the dust jets emerging from Rosetta’s comet can be traced back to active pits that were likely formed by a sudden collapse of the surface. These ‘sinkholes’ are providing a glimpse at the ...



june 30, 2015 - European Space Agency

Telescopes around the globe recently homed in on one point in the sky, observing the paired Didymos asteroids – the target for ESA’s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission. The 800 m-diameter main body is ...



june 17, 2015 - European Space Agency

The world’s first spacecraft thruster with a platinum combustion chamber and nozzle made by 3D printing has passed its baptism of fire with a series of firings lasting more than an hour and 618 igniti...



june 17, 2015 - European Space Agency

With less than a week to liftoff, the next Sentinel satellite for the Copernicus environmental monitoring programme is now in position high up in the launch tower at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, Fre...



june 17, 2015 - European Space Agency

The February flight of ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle is yielding invaluable insights and results for future reentry craft. The spaceplane, being displayed this week at the Paris Air and Spac...