The Aurora Australis, photographed over Concordia station in July 2025, during the ongoing solar activity maximum, the peak of the Sun’s 11-year cycle. ESA – Larger image This dazzling light
The Aurora Australis, photographed over Concordia station in July 2025, during the ongoing solar activity maximum, the peak of the Sun’s 11-year cycle. ESA – Larger image This dazzling light
LONDON – A day after the British government announced plans to fold the UK Space Agency into the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), industry leaders said the move
Applications 20/08/2025 191 views 2 likes Southern Europe is once again in the grip of extreme summer heat. Soaring temperatures and bone-dry land have fuelled widespread wildfires, with the Iberian
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Applications 18/08/2025 348 views 14 likes Although ESA’s small Arctic Weather Satellite was built as a demonstrator for future constellation called EPS-Sterna, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts is
This graphic shows the proportion of different types of phytoplankton – diatoms, haptophytes and cryptophytes (from left to right) – as a percentage of the total community according to chlorophyll
Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission – has launched aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from the European spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 13 August at 02:37 CEST (12
The development of ESA’s Earth Explorer FLEX mission has recently passed a significant milestone: the mission’s all-important, single instrument has been joined to its satellite platform. This delicate operation was
Applications 13/08/2025 227 views 11 likes Combining 25 years of space-based data with ocean sampling, scientists have uncovered a change in the microscopic organisms that underpin the Southern Ocean’s food
Science & Exploration 13/08/2025 344 views 12 likes The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is similar in size to