Video: ESA defending Earth
For Asteroid Day, Queen guitarist Brian May tells the story of ESA’s Hera asteroid mission, Europe’s contribution to an audacious international planetary defence test
Source: ESA news
26
Jun
2019
26
Jun
2019
Settling the galaxy
Technology image of the week: what looks like an exploding firework is actually a simulation of humankind’s future expansion across the stars, produced for an international competition
Source: ESA news
25
Jun
2019
Holey moly
Human and robotic exploration image of the week: Aorounga impact crater in Chad imaged from space by ESA astronaut Tim Peake
Source: ESA news
24
Jun
2019
ESA marks Asteroid Day on 30 June
ESA will be participating in this year’s Asteroid Day, the UN-endorsed global awareness campaign day on the small rocky bodies scattered across space, taking place on Sunday, 30 June.
Source: ESA news
24
Jun
2019
Raikoke spits ash
The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission captured the unexpected ash plumes of the Raikoke volcano erupting
Source: ESA news
24
Jun
2019
Join our asteroid hunt
Space Science Image of the Week: Spot the trails left by asteroids in archive images from the Hubble Space Telescope
Source: ESA news
21
Jun
2019
Ariane 5’s second launch of 2019
An Ariane 5 has delivered the T-16 and Eutelsat-7C telecom satellites into their planned orbits.
Source: ESA news
20
Jun
2019
Spaceship Concordia
Science for the benefit of space exploration does not only happen off planet. While some studies require the weightless isolation of the International Space Station, another location provides the right conditions for investigating the consequences of spaceflight, and it is right here on Earth.
The 2018 crew of Concordia research station in Antarctica recently returned to the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne to wrap up their time as researchers and subjects at Earth’s most remote outpost.
Source: ESA news
20
Jun
2019
Connecting the dots: nitrogen dioxide over Siberian pipelines
New maps that use information from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite reveal emissions of nitrogen dioxide along a Siberian natural gas pipeline that connects the Urengoy gas field – the second-largest gas field in the world – with Europe.
Source: ESA news
20
Jun
2019
ESA launches new podcast for Beyond mission
What does a space mission sound like? Well, aside from the roaring of engines, the hum of the Space Station and the voices of space to ground, it sounds a bit like ESA’s new podcast, ESA Explores.
Source: ESA news