Mapping salty waters

The length and precision with which climate scientists can track the salinity, or saltiness, of the…

Contracts signed for prototype of a highly-optimised black upper stage

Rocket upper stages are commonly made of aluminium but switching to carbon composites lowers cost and…

New potential for tracking severe storms

Even just within the last couple of months, Cyclones Fani, Idai and Kenneth have brought devastation…

Shaped by ice

A nifty way of processing data from ESA’s CryoSat mission yields a high-resolution view of Antarctica…

Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier bucks the trend

Our planet works in mysterious ways. We are all used to hearing about the world’s ice…

Jakobshavn in motion

Jakobshavn Glacier in west Greenland has been losing more ice through this glacier than from anywhere…

How Venus and Mars can teach us about Earth

One has a thick poisonous atmosphere, one has hardly any atmosphere at all, and one is…

Joining forces on Earth science to benefit society

With human activity leaving its indelible mark on the landscape and affecting the climate, our natural…

Space Station science looking at Earth

In this edition of our bi-weekly update on European research run on the International Space Station,…

Pale blue dot – or not?

Space Science Image of the Week: Earth’s evil twin Venus offers a natural laboratory to study…