Boeing's Starliner crew capsule launches on first space flight

Boeing’s new Starliner capsule rocketed toward the International Space Station on its first test flight Friday,…

Discovering a new fundamental underwater force

A team of mathematicians from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Brown University…

Genetic variation gives mussels a chance to adapt to climate change

Existing genetic variation in natural populations of Mediterranean mussels allows them to adapt to declining pH…

Climate activists final victory in Dutch court ruling

Climate activists won a final victory Friday in their long-running battle through Dutch courts to force…

ESA Highlights: a visual showcase of ESA’s key activities in 2019

ESA Highlights 2019: a closer look at ESA’s achievements in the past year …

Ethiopia celebrates launch of first satellite

Ethiopia launched its first satellite on Friday, a landmark achievement for the country’s space programme that…

After drought, floods compound Somalia's year of climate misery

As Somalia withered from drought early this year, and her goats dropped dead from thirst, Maka…

From airport approaches to eCall in cars – 10 years of EGNOS

The Galileo satellite navigation system has been providing Initial Services for three years now. Meanwhile Europe’s…

In Brazil's pampas, a Triassic Park once flourished

Millions of years before the arrival of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex, another fearsome dinosaur—the Gnathovorax—roamed what…

Discs and bulges

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows IC 2051, a galaxy in the southern constellation of…