News and Events
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CryoSat still cool at 10
Today marks 10 years since a Dnepr rocket blasted off from an underground silo in the remote desert steppe of Kazakhstan, launching one of ESA’s most remarkable Earth-observing...
News SciencesApril 8, 2020 -
Rethinking cosmology: Universe expansion may not...
Astronomers have assumed for decades that the Universe is expanding at the same rate in all directions. A new study based on data from ESA’s XMM-Newton, NASA’s Chandra and the...
News SciencesApril 8, 2020 -
The 43th COSPAR assembly is postponed to 2021
In the context of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, the comitee has decided to postpone the reunion to 28 January – 4 February 2021.
News SciencesApril 6, 2020 -
ESA to conduct BepiColombo flyby amid coronavirus...
Controllers at ESA’s mission control centre are preparing on 10 April for a gravity-assist flyby of the European-Japanese Mercury explorer BepiColombo. The manoeuvre, which will...
News SciencesMarch 31, 2020 -
Coronavirus lockdown leading to drop in pollution...
New data, based on observations from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, are showing strong reductions in nitrogen dioxide concentrations over several major cities across Europe...
News ObservationMarch 27, 2020 -
ESA scales down science mission operations amid...
In response to the escalating coronavirus pandemic, ESA has decided to further reduce on-site personnel at its mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
News SciencesMarch 24, 2020 -
Galileo now replying to SOS messages worldwide
As well as providing global navigation services, Europe’s Galileo satellite constellation is contributing to saving more than 2000 lives annually by relaying SOS messages to first...
News TelecommunicationsMarch 20, 2020 -
NASA Leadership Assessing Mission Impacts of...
To protect the health and safety of the NASA workforce as the nation responds to coronavirus (COVID-19), agency leadership recently completed the first assessment of work underway...
News SciencesMarch 20, 2020 -
Giant flare from a tiny star
An L dwarf star, a star with so little mass that it is only just above the boundary of actually being a star, caught in the act of emitting an enormous ‘super flare’ of X-rays, as...
News SciencesMarch 20, 2020 -
Land-cover maps of Europe from the cloud
Thanks to the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission and new cloud-computing resources, fully automated land-cover maps in 10 m resolution are on the horizon.
News ObservationMarch 20, 2020 -
African rainforests have not recovered after the...
Using a tool they recently developed, researchers from INRAE, CEA and CNRS quantified the evolution of carbon stocks in the aerial biomass in the tropics (America, Africa, Asia)...
News ObservationMarch 20, 2020 -
ExoMars 2020 is postponed to 2022
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Roscosmos Space Corporation have decided to postpone the launch of the second ExoMars mission to study the Red Planet to 2022.
News SciencesMarch 13, 2020 -
Greenland and Antarctica losing ice six times...
According to a new report, Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice six times faster than in the 1990s – currently on track with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s...
News ObservationMarch 11, 2020 -
Milky Way’s warp caused by galactic collision,...
Astronomers have pondered for years why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped. Data from ESA’s star-mapping satellite Gaia suggest the distortion might be caused by an ongoing...
News SciencesMarch 2, 2020 -
Ariane 6 launch complex at Europe's Spaceport
Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana is gearing up for the arrival of Ariane 6.
News ArianeFebruary 28, 2020 -
A SURPRISING FIRST YEAR OF SCIENCE FROM THE MARS...
A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge from the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission. Findings described in a set of six papers published today reveal a...
SciencesFebruary 24, 2020 -
DATA FROM FRENCH-CHINESE CFOSAT SATELLITE ON...
29 October 2018, China launched the French-Chinese CFOSat satellite from its launch base in the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia. This first joint science mission between the two...
ObservationFebruary 19, 2020 -
First Solar Orbiter instrument sends measurements
First measurements by a Solar Orbiter science instrument reached the ground on Thursday 13 February providing a confirmation to the international science teams that the...
News SciencesFebruary 17, 2020