Stellar flares may hamper search for life in promising star system

Illustration of TRAPPIST-1, a red-dwarf star with at least seven orbiting planets Mark Garlick/Alamy The search…

Indonesia – volcanoes on the radar

ESA revealed the first stunning images from its groundbreaking Biomass satellite mission – marking a major…

The future of ESA Transportation

Space is huge and essential to humankind, fuelling knowledge, supporting our economies and driving global prosperity.…

The future of ESA Transportation

Space is huge and essential to humankind, fuelling knowledge, supporting our economies and driving global prosperity.…

ESA – R&D Successes Onboard Biomass

Enabling & Support 23/06/2025 23 views 0 likes For any space mission to launch, thousands of…

ESA’s Living Planet Symposium 2025

Held on 23–27 June 2025 in Vienna, Austria, ESA’s Living Planet Symposium is one of the world’s leading Earth observation conferences. With more than 6000…

Biomass satellite returns striking first images of forests and more

Applications 23/06/2025 454 views 7 likes Today, at the Living Planet Symposium, ESA revealed the first…

ESA – Biomass: ESA’s forest mission

Biomass – an Earth Explorer research mission developed within ESA’s FutureEO programme – was launch on 29…

This is the best time of the year to marvel at the Milky Way

The Milky Way, above Uluru in Australia Stefan Liebermann/mauritius images GmbH/Alamy Because I’m based in the…

Stunning first images show the power of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

The Trifid (upper-right) and Lagoon (centre) Nebulae as viewed with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory NSF-DOE…