Asteroid 2024 YR4: from discovery to potential lunar impact

This animation demonstrates why the asteroid 2024 YR4 was only discovered two days after it  passed…

Will asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the Moon?

Space Safety 27/06/2025 59 views 0 likes Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its…

ESA – Fire and deforestation linked

The combination of long-term, high-resolution satellite datasets from ESA’s Climate Change Initiative is offering unprecedented insights into the…

Ax-4 joins the International Space Station

On 26 June 2025 ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from Poland and his crewmates arrived to…

Ax-4 joins the International Space Station

On 26 June 2025 ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from Poland and his crewmates arrived to…

Disc galaxies: thick and thin

Present-day disc galaxies often contain a thick, star-filled outer disc and an embedded thin disc of…

ESA – Topography of Arcadia Planitia

This colour-coded topographic image of Mars shows Arcadia Planitia in Mars’s northern lowlands. It was created…

Small satellite revolution in Earth observation: what it means for industry and users

ESA’s Living Planet Symposium, one of the world’s leading Earth observation conferences, opened on 23 June…

New ESA gravity mission to detect weakening ocean conveyor

Applications 26/06/2025 21 views 0 likes At the Living Planet Symposium, attendees have been hearing how…

Watch MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 launch live

Applications 26/06/2025 12 views 0 likes The second of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites and…