At ESA's ESTEC center near Amsterdam and at CERN in Geneva scientists are trying to explore 'The Dark Side', the mysterious forces of dark matter and dark energy which are thought to rule the cosmos. ...
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA) discussed her love of music and how she listens to music aboard the orbi...
An experimental vehicle to develop an autonomous European reentry capability for future reusable space transportation has completed its mission. ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle flew a flawless...
An annotated timeline of the most critical events during the IXV mission. ESA’s wingless spaceplane is set for liftoff on a Vega rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, 11 February 2015. ESA’s Intermedia...
IXV, Europe's Intermediate Experimental Vehicle, will soon be launched by VEGA into a suborbital path. As it re-enters the atmosphere, IXV will test new critical technologiesto advance Europe's ambiti...
29 January 2015 ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle is ready for its launch and reentry mission on 11 February. The launch is scheduled for 13:00 GMT (14:00 CET) atop a Vega rocket from Europe...
While sailing south of Africa on an around-the-world voyage, Matteo Miceli was suddenly alerted to a massive iceberg in his path.Almost 4 km long, the iceberg drifting near the Prince Edward Islands w...
A new Speedmaster chronograph has been developed together by OMEGA and ESA. Since the 1960s, OMEGA has been strongly linked to NASA, the conquest of space and all six lunar landings. On 11 December, t...
ESA’s Rosetta mission has soft-landed its Philae probe on a comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat has been achieved.After a tense wait during the seven-hour descent to the s...
Three years of observations by ESA’s CryoSat satellite show that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is losing over 150 cubic kilometres of ice each year – considerably more than when last surveyed.The imbal...
3D printing is getting ready to revolutionise space travel. European Space Agency is paving the way for 3D-printedmetals to build high-quality, intricate shapes with massive cost savings.ESA and the E...
Smart and quick land surveys by unmanned microplanes are now offered by the German companyMAVinci, an alumnus of ESA Business Incubation Centre Darmstadt.Guided completely by satnav and following pred...
The module carrying the telescope and scientific instruments of ESA’s Euclid ‘dark Universe’ mission is now being developed by Astrium in Toulouse, France. Euclid will be launched in 2020 to explore d...
A novel smartphone app, already being used to monitor hundreds of railway stations in Germany, can earn you money as you go about your normal day. The AppJobber phone app benefits from many people bei...
The first rule of DIY: know where your tools are. Astronauts on the International Space Station are about to have that task made much simpler, with a purpose-designed 3D-printed toolbox due for launch...
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