Developing a space mission is a long process that involves a lot of tests, sometimes in…
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Nanoceria
Down to the microscopic level, nanoparticles show promising properties. A team of experts in Italy has…
Ariane 6 launch pad under construction
The launch pad is 28.5 m deep and 200 m wide, formed with enough concrete to…
ESA Academy’s Technology Transfer & Innovation Workshop
30 highly motivated university students from 13 different ESA Member and Associate States have successfully completed…
Asteroid impact 2028: Protecting our planet
It’s the year 2028, and the European Space Agency has been carefully monitoring a worrying situation:…
Gaia’s first asteroid discoveries
While scanning the sky to chart a billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy, ESA’s Gaia…
Paxi on the ISS: Moving in space
Our alien friend Paxi, ESA Education's mascot, went to visit American astronaut Anne McClain on board…
Latest Hubble Measurements Suggest Disparity in Hubble Constant Calculations is not a Fluke
Hubble’s measurements of today’s expansion rate do not match the rate that was expected based on…
Crowded cluster
This sparkling burst of stars is Messier 75. It is a globular cluster: a spherical collection of…
Earth from space: Queensland floods
In this week's edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us…