Yesterday, the international team of six astronauts from China, Japan, USA, Spain and Russia returned to daylight after spending six nights underground simulating a mission exploring another planet. ...
ESA and #china have launched the fourth phase of the collaborative Dragon programme in Wuhan City, on the Yangtze River, which recently experienced major floods witnessed by Europe’s Sentinel-1 satell...
The target is set: a large derelict satellite currently silently tumbling its way through low orbit. If all goes to plan, in 2023 it will vanish – and efforts against space debris will have made a gia...
Press release available only in original language. This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the beating heart of one of the most visually appealing, and most studied, supernova remn...
EXPOSED TO SPACE AND BACK ON EARTHIn the excitement of watching Tim Peake, Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Kopra land on Earth on 18 June after 186 days in space, all attention was focused on the astronauts ...
On this day 10 years ago, Space Shuttle Discovery was launched to the International Space Station carrying ESA’sEuropean Modular Cultivation System – a miniature greenhouse to probe how plants grow in...
The EOMAP aquatic remote sensing company, together with partners at the Remote Sensing Research Centre of Queensland University and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, are developing new methods to mon...
1 July 2016On the dawn of Asteroid Day 2016 the Asteroid Impact Mission team is proud to announce the release of a fun, interactive and #educational mobile game. AIM-Space Challenge will teach you mor...
30 June 2016Nobody said it was going to be easy. But after four days of non-stop competition between brilliant student teams, the ENTA SAT2 team from Portugal emerged as the winners of the 2016 Europe...
Rosetta is set to complete its mission in a controlled descent to the surface of its comet on 30 September.The mission is coming to an end as a result of the spacecraft’s ever-increasing distance from...
30 June 2016A thick red line snakes across Earth’s surface – a ‘risk corridor’ for the possible impact of an asteroid, based on its observed trajectory through space.Researcher Clemens Rumpf has been ...
Europe’s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission is set to become humanity’s first mission to a double asteroid, and ESA’s first to a small body since Rosetta put down its lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Geras...
We usually send them 400 km up, but next week ESA will be sending six astronauts 800 m underground into the rocky caves of Sardinia, Italy. The caving course recreates aspects of a space expedition wi...
Following the recent expansion of ESA’s European Space Education Resource Offices (ESEROs) to several other European countries, a new #esero Office has also been officially inaugurated today in Austri...
A sea-based test is demonstrating the potential of extending #satnav augmentation coverage into north polar regions, offering a safety-of-life standard of navigation performance to users including shi...
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