Stressed seedlings in space
Science & Exploration Stressed seedlings in space 07/11/2017 5958 views 112 likes Life on Earth has a myriad of problems, but gravity isn’t one of them – staying grounded means ...
Storm hunter launched to International Space Station
ESA’s observatory to monitor electrical discharges in the upper atmosphere is on its way to the International Space Station. The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor is riding in th...
Storm hunter in position
Pointing straight down at Earth, the storm hunter will observe lightning and powerful electrical bursts in the atmosphere that occur above thunderstorms, the so-called transient lumi...
Space radiation on Earth
The constant ‘rain’ of radiation in space includes cosmic rays, which, despite the name ‘ray’, comprises highly energetic particles arriving from beyond the Solar System. A new inter...
Space photons bring a new dimension to cryptography
Applications Space photons bring a new dimension to cryptography 03/05/2018 10860 views 153 likes ESA and its partners will investigate how satellites can distribute photon ‘keys’ t...
Singapore, the City in a Garden, sets an example for a green planet
Related: A rainforest-like green heart grows within Singapore’s Marina One Join Our Newsletter Receive the latest in global news and designs building a better future. “We merely wan...
Sentinel-5P brings air pollution into focus
Applications Sentinel-5P brings air pollution into focus 01/12/2017 58775 views 373 likes Launched on 13 October, the Sentinel-5P satellite has delivered its first images of air pol...
Sentinel-3B liftoff replay
The second Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite, Sentinel-3B, lifted off on a Rockot from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 17:57 GMT (19:57 CEST) on 25 April 2018. Sentinel-3...
Sentinel-1 sees through hurricanes
Imaging the top of hurricanes from space is nothing new, but the Sentinel-1 satellites can see right through these towering spinning weather systems, measuring the sea surface below ...
New launch date for James Webb Space Telescope
Science & Exploration New launch date for James Webb Space Telescope 28/06/2018 59534 views 279 likes After completion of an independent review, a new launch date for the James ...
Mapping the future direction for quantum research
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The way research in quantum technology will be taken forward has been laid out in a revised roadmap for the field. Published today in the New Journal of Ph...
Magnetic antiparticles offer new horizons for information technologies
In the same way that spheres and doughnuts have different topologies, skyrmions possess a special property called topological charge which plays a similar role to electric charges wh...
Liftoff – Alexander Gerst returns to space
Science & Exploration Liftoff – Alexander Gerst returns to space 06/06/2018 10183 views 92 likes Today at 11:12 GMT (13:12 CEST) ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst was launched into ...
Integral’s orbits 2002–17
ESA’s Integral space observatory has been orbiting Earth for 15 years, observing the ever-changing, powerful and violent cosmos in gamma rays, X-rays and visible light. Studying star...
Hole-based artificial atoms could be key to spin-based qubit
Artificial atoms in quantum computing The spin states of electrons confined to semiconductor quantum dots are a promising platform for quantum computation. Such a device is known as...
Gravitational wave detectors to search for dark matter
According to a new study, they could also potentially detect dark matter, if dark matter is composed of a particular kind of particle called a dark photon. Without any modifications,...
Going green to the Red Planet
Now, it’s using sunlight to generate electricity, significantly reducing energy costs. Whether orbiting a planet, following a comet or peering deep into our Universe, spacecraft have...
Galileo 23–26 – Liftoff replay
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Full house for EDRS
Applications Full house for EDRS 13/03/2018 6093 views 100 likes The EDRS–SpaceDataHighway has now begun regularly relaying Earth images from Sentinel-2A, which marks the last of fo...
Exploring alien worlds with lasers
Enabling & Support Exploring alien worlds with lasers 10/01/2018 8389 views 146 likes In everyday life we look and touch things to find out what they are made of. A powerful sci...
ESA selects three new mission concepts for study
Science & Exploration ESA selects three new mission concepts for study 07/05/2018 25299 views 111 likes A high-energy survey of the early Universe, an infrared observatory to st...
ESA’s next science mission to focus on nature of exoplanets
Science & Exploration ESA’s next science mission to focus on nature of exoplanets 20/03/2018 12707 views 122 likes The nature of planets orbiting stars in other systems will be ...
ESA’s next satellite propelled by butane
Thanks to a compact thruster resembling a butane cigarette lighter, the cereal box-sized satellite will fly around its near-twin to test their radio communications. Much quicker to b...
Earth’s first missions to a binary asteroid, for planetary defence
ESA’s proposed Hera mission would also be Europe’s contribution to an ambitious planetary defence experiment. “Such a binary asteroid system is the perfect testbed for a planetary de...
Earth’s atmosphere: new results from the International Space Station
Science & Exploration Earth’s atmosphere: new results from the International Space Station 20/03/2018 6801 views 119 likes With ESA’s help, the latest atmosphere monitor on the ...