How fast is the universe expanding? The mystery endures

Scientists have known for decades that the universe is expanding, but research in the past few…

Death toll from Spain floods rises to three

The death toll from torrential rain and floods in southeastern Spain rose to three on Friday…

Skin-crawling discovery: 'body farm' scientists find corpses move

An Australian scientist has proved that human bodies move around significantly for more than a year…

Φ-week Bootcamp winners

On the sidelines of ESA’s Φ-week, a five-day app-development bootcamp took place. A group of young…

Baja California, Mexico

This Copernicus Sentinel-1 image takes us just south of the US border, to the region of…

Earth from Space: Baja California

In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us…

Dark Matter in the Belly of the Whale

This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, focuses on an object named UGC 695,…

'Demon oil' on the defensive over climate change

At the dawn of an era scientists have dubbed the Anthropocene, driven by human impact on…

Forest fires destroying vital buffer against climate change

With fierce blazes raging in jungles from the Amazon to Indonesia, concerns are mounting about the…

Indonesians choked by forest fire haze pray for rain

Hundreds of people held a mass prayer for rain in a smoke-filled Indonesian city on Friday,…