Climate tipping points are critical junctures in Earth’s environmental systems, where minor yet pivotal changes can lead to irreversible and dramatic shifts. These changes, ranging…
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The Einstein Probe, launched on January 9, 2024, is a joint venture led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with contributions from ESA and MPE.…
Proba-3’s pair of satellites will be in a highly elliptical orbit around Earth, performing formation flying maneuvers as well as scientific studies of the solar…
ESA’s interplanetary mission, Juice, lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on April 14, 2023, to begin its eight-year journey to Jupiter, where…
ATHENA, developed by ESA and IENAI Space, uses tiny emitter arrays on a silicon wafer to provide scalable and efficient propulsion for small satellites like…
ESA’s 2023 in space exploration featured major milestones: the Juice mission to Jupiter, Euclid telescope’s dark matter studies, Aeolus mission’s end, the Zero Debris Charter…
Hubble Space Telescope image featuring the spiral galaxies NGC 1356, LEDA 467699, LEDA 95415, and IC 1947. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy…
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image showcases Nueva Vizcaya Province in the Philippines, highlighting its agricultural landscape and urban areas through a false-color composite. In the image,…
ESA’s Cheops mission has revealed a rare six-planet system in orbital resonance around the star HD110067, offering valuable insights into planetary system evolution. This discovery…
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope features MCG-01-24-014. It is a spiral galaxy located 275 million light-years away with an active galactic nucleus, categorizing…
ESA’s CryoSat mission provides data to determine the precise rate of change in the thickness of the polar ice sheets and floating sea ice. It…
This Hubble Space Telescope image captures Arp-Madore 2105-332, a peculiar galaxy system in the Microscopium constellation. It is notable for its emission-line galaxies, indicating vibrant…
This artist’s concept shows the European Space Agency’s ARIEL spacecraft on its way to Lagrange Point 2 (L2) — a gravitationally stable, Sun-centric orbit —…
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the vivid colors of Lake Natron and Lake Magadi in East Africa, highlighting their unique ecological and geological features. The…
The European Space Agency, in partnership with the University of Bern’s Astronomical Institute, conducted a study to understand the unpredictable tumbling of defunct satellites in…
Artist’s view of the configuration of Ariane 6 using four boosters (A64). Credit: ESA – D. Ducros Cinq, quatre, trois, deux, un. Allumage Vulcain! This…
This Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy cluster Abell 3192 in the constellation Eridanus. Initially thought to be a single cluster, further research revealed…
On the launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana, this Ariane 6 test model was put through a combined test hot-fire (CTHF) before launch – over…
Researchers studied fungi behavior under hypergravity, revealing both the risks and potential benefits of fungi in space missions. Future studies will investigate other organisms in…
The North Channel, a strait between Northern Ireland and Scotland, is beautifully captured in a false-color radar image from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission. This detailed…