Fun and education for kids and families with Expedition: Home

ESA Education is launching Expedition: Home, a one-stop website for kids and parents to do fun space-based…

UK launches space-based response to Covid-19 pandemic

Some £2.6 million to develop space-enabled technology and services that can strengthen the NHS’s response to…

Estuaries are warming at twice the rate of oceans and atmosphere

Estuaries on the south-east coast of Australia are warming at twice the rate of oceans and…

Predicting the evolution of genetic mutations

Quantitative biologists David McCandlish and Juannan Zhou at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have developed an algorithm…

'A bad time to be alive': Study links ocean deoxygenation to ancient die-off

In a new study, Stanford researchers have strongly bolstered the theory that a lack of oxygen…

100th lunar asteroid collision confirmed by second telescope

Since March 2017, ESA’s NELIOTA project has been regularly looking out for ‘lunar flashes’ on the Moon,…

Pacific clean-up after homes 'blown to smithereens' by superstorm

Tens of thousands of people remain homeless in Vanuatu a week after Tropical Cyclone Harold pummelled…

Vulnerable cells armor themselves against infection by depleting surface cholesterol

Cells in some of the body’s most vulnerable entry routes to bacterial infection buffer themselves when…

A new species of black endemic iguanas in Caribbeans is proposed for urgent conservation

A newly discovered endemic species of melanistic black iguana (Iguana melanoderma), discovered in Saba and Montserrat…

Flamingos form firm friendships

Flamingos form friendships that last for years, new research shows. Click here for original…