Paxi joins ESA Education’s Fly Your Thesis! 2016 campaign

Paxi has joined ESA Education's Fly Your Thesis! 2016 campaign where 4 teams of university students…

James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors Will Piece Together Cosmic Puzzles

The primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope that consists of 18 hexagonal mirrors looks…

Mapping Italy’s 30 October 2016 earthquake

In the early hours of 30 October 2016, a 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck central Italy. Scientists…

Material man

Tommaso Ghidini, heading ESA's Materials Technology section, explains how to choose materials for space missions

[release] Launch success of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 31 (H-IIA F31) with the geostationary meteorological satellite “Himawari-9” on board

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully l

[release] Launch success of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 31 (H-IIA F31) with the geostationary meteorological satellite “Himawari-9” on board

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully l

Night sky guide for November 2016

This month’s Full Moon - the second of three supermoons in 2016 - will be the…

New, Space-Based View of Human-Made Carbon Dioxide

Scientists have produced the first global maps of human emissions of carbon dioxide ever made solely…

New, Space-Based View of Human-Made Carbon Dioxide

Scientists have produced the first global maps of human emissions of carbon dioxide ever made solely…

Revolutionary telescope handed to Air Force Space Command

In a quiet, dark desert location in the hills an hour south of Albuquerque, New Mexico,…