News and Events
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First results from Cheops: ESA’s exoplanet...
ESA’s new exoplanet mission, Cheops, has found a nearby planetary system to contain one of the hottest and most extreme extra-solar planets known to date: WASP-189 b. This...
News SciencesSeptember 29, 2020 -
Worsening rifts and fractures spotted at two of...
Satellite imagery has revealed that two of the fastest-changing glaciers in Antarctica are fracturing and weakening faster than ever – the first step towards the glaciers...
News ObservationSeptember 29, 2020 -
Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich: preparing...
A European satellite built to carry out precise measurements of sea level changes has arrived in California in preparation for launch. The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite...
News SciencesSeptember 29, 2020 -
SPACE CLIMATE OBSERVATORY - INTERNATIONAL CALL...
Under the aegis of the United Nations, the Space Climate Observatory (SCO) is today issuing a first international call for projects, inviting companies, research scientists and...
Other fieldSeptember 29, 2020 -
Mars Express finds more underground water on Mars
ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft has discovered 3 new ponds of liquid water buried under the ice in the south polar region of Mars.
News SciencesSeptember 28, 2020 -
Our seas are capturing more carbon than expected
New research uses data from ESA, NASA and NOAA satellites finds that far more carbon is absorbed by the oceans than previously thought.
News ObservationSeptember 22, 2020 -
Plans underway for new polar ice and snow...
Monitoring the cryosphere is essential to fully assess, predict and adapt to climate variability and change. Today ESA, along with Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space...
News ObservationSeptember 21, 2020 -
Making waves in space
The Fluidics or "Fluid Dynamics in Space" experiment, developed by CNES and co-funded by Airbus Defense and Space, is probing how fluids behave in weightlessness in the...
News Sciences, Other field, ProximaSeptember 15, 2020 -
Probing the hidden side of thunderstorms
The TARANIS satellite is scheduled to launch from Kourou (French Guiana) in November in order to study the luminous phenomena that occur above thunderstorms. The objective of the...
News ObservationAugust 25, 2020 -
Cluster’s 20 years of studying Earth’s...
Despite a nominal lifetime of two years, ESA’s Cluster is now entering its third decade in space and still enabling new discoveries as it explores our planet’s relationship with...
News ObservationAugust 17, 2020 -
NEW LAUNCH SUCCESS FOR ARIANE 5 - GALAXY 30 / MEV...
ArianeAugust 16, 2020 -
Hot, Hot, Hot! Testing the Vulcain®2.1 engine for...
At the end of July, the Vulcain®2.1 engine for the first Ariane 6 flight successfully passed its acceptance test. This cryogenic engine delivers 135 metric tons of thrust in a...
News ArianeAugust 7, 2020 -
EXPLOSION IN BEIRUT: SATELLITE IMAGES ACQUIRED...
ObservationAugust 6, 2020 -
CryoSat taken to new heights for ice science
To gain even better insight, ESA has spent the last two weeks nudging CryoSat into a higher orbit to synchronise it with NASA’s ICESat-2 so that scientists can benefit from...
News ObservationAugust 3, 2020 -
MARS 2020 MISSION LAUNCH, PERSEVERANCE ROVER AND...
SciencesJuly 30, 2020 -
Flight over the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover...
This video shows Jezero crater, the landing site of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on the Red Planet, based on images from ESA’s Mars Express mission.
News SciencesJuly 29, 2020 -
Dead star emits never-before seen mix of radiation
Something that has never been seen before in this type of star, and may solve a long-standing cosmic mystery.
News SciencesJuly 28, 2020 -
ExoMars finds new gas signatures in the martian...
These unlock new secrets about the martian atmosphere, and will enable a more accurate determination of whether there is methane, a gas associated with biological or geological...
News SciencesJuly 27, 2020