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European Space Agency

July 2024

  • Earth, Apophis and the equipment from the Ramses mission

    Scientists set sights on asteroid larger than Eiffel Tower as it skims past Earth

    Ramses mission to study 99942 Apophis when it passes closer to Earth than GPS and TV satellites in 2029

June 2024

  • Uranus from Voyager 2 spacecraft. One image is in true colour and the other in false colour. The unmanned Voyager 2 space probe was launched by Nasa in August 1977.

    ‘Once in a lifetime’: UK and European space scientists urged to join Nasa mission to Uranus

    Astrophysicists call for international cooperation on ambitious probe, amid growing interest in the mysterious planet

May 2024

  • A purple light in a dark sky shrouded in orange and stars

    Euclid telescope spies rogue planets floating free in Milky Way

    Wandering worlds are seen deep inside Orion nebula, a giant cloud of dust and gas 1,500 light years away
  • An image from Nasa showing the ZS7 galaxy system

    Black holes observed colliding when universe was only 740m years old

    Glimpse of galactic merger, via James Webb telescope, may explain presence of monster black holes
  • Close-up image of eruptions on the sun.

    Video of sun’s surface shows solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss

    Ethereal scenes of flowing super-heated material may help explain why atmosphere is hotter than surface

April 2024

  • GERMANY-SPACE-ESA<br>Australian aerospace engineer Katherine Bennell-Pegg poses after the press conference of European Space Agency ESA's class of 2022 astronaut candidates at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, western Germany on May 3, 2023. - Bennell-Pegg, Director of Space Technology at the Australian Space Agency, will undertake basic astronaut training at ESA's European Astronaut Centre (EAC) near Cologne, Germany, alongside ESA's newly selected career astronauts from April 2023. This is the first time ESA is giving basic training to an astronaut candidate from an international partner, making EAC the third centre in the world to do so. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP) (Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)

    Australian taxpayers paid $466,000 for training of nation’s first female astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg

    With Bennell-Pegg unlikely to go to space anytime soon, there are questions about the value of the spending by the cash-strapped Australian space program

November 2023

  • The moon with a European flag superimposed on it

    Space race 2.0: why Europe is joining the new dash to the moon

  • The Horsehead nebula in an image taken by the Euclid telescope

    Euclid telescope sends back first images from ‘dark universe’ mission

October 2023

  • Tim Peake in 2018 in ESA uniform

    Tim Peake to quit retirement to lead UK’s first astronaut mission

  • The moon

    ‘Streets on the moon’: lunar dust could be ‘melted’ to make solid roads

September 2023

  • Félicette flew on a French rocket on a sub-orbital mission that reached an altitude of 154km. She was later put down so scientists could study her body.

    First cat in space: how a Parisian stray called Félicette was blasted far from Earth

  • A thermometer in Toulouse, France, reads 45C on 23 August.

    Heat denial: influencers question validity of high temperatures

August 2023

  • A rendered image of Skyrora XL blasting off from a launcher

    ‘We’ll launch rockets every month’: Britain finally joins the space race

    Fifty years after the UK sent its first satellite into space, a Scottish town is among rivals vying for another shot

  • SpaceX launches spacecraft with crew onboard towards International Space Station – video

    SpaceX has successfully launched its Dragon spacecraft with four crew members onboard

    • Four astronauts from four countries take off to International Space Station

    • ‘It’s like doing an Arctic expedition with German scientists in 1943’: life on the International Space Station at a time of war

    • India’s south pole moon landing is big business for global space race

July 2023

  • Esa's Aeolus wind mission

    British-built satellite guided to assisted crash in Atlantic in world first

    European Space Agency brought down defunct Aeolus weather monitoring craft in unprecedented manoeuvre
  • ESA's (Atmospheric Dynamics Mission) ADM-Aeolus wind mission will provide timely and accurate profiles of the world's winds and further information on aerosols and clouds

    Defunct Aeolus satellite to be crashed deliberately into Atlantic Ocean

    European Space Agency to attempt unprecedented manoeuvre despite craft not being designed for controlled re-entry
  • The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope launches on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

    Euclid telescope lifts off in search of the secrets of dark universe

    European Space Agency mission launches on SpaceX rocket from Florida to shed light on dark energy and dark matter
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