Slovakia becomes ESA Associate Member state

Following its unanimous approval by ESA Council on 17 March, the Association Agreement between ESA and…

30 000 near-Earth asteroids discovered and rising

We have now discovered 30 039 near-Earth asteroids in the Solar System – rocky bodies orbiting…

Webb finds star duo forms ‘fingerprint’ in space

Image: A new image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals a remarkable cosmic sight:…

Solar Orbiter speeds towards its next rendezvous with the Sun

Video: 00:00:07 The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission arrives at its next close approach to the Sun…

Ariane 6 assembly timelapse

Video: 00:02:22 At Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, a test model of the Ariane 6’s central…

LICIACube image of asteroid ejecta

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First kinetic impact test succeeds in shifting asteroid orbit

The kinetic impact of NASA’s DART spacecraft with the Dimorphos asteroid around its larger Didymos parent…

Expedition 67 poses at dinner

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Memories of Minerva – Samantha Cristoforetti returns to Earth

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is returning to Earth alongside NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and…

Seasonal changes in Antarctic ice sheet flow dynamics detected for the first time

Certain estimates of Antarctica’s total contribution to sea-level rise may be over, or even underestimated, after…