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Technology image of the week: James Webb’s NIRSpec and other space optical instruments highlighted to mark the UN Year of Light

New clues emerge in the mystery of a star with odd light patterns.

New clues emerge in the mystery of a star with odd light patterns.

A process involving ultraviolet light from the sun helps explain the ratio of heavier to lighter carbon in Mars’ atmosphere and resolve a dilemma about “missing” carbon.

A process involving ultraviolet light from the sun helps explain the ratio of heavier to lighter carbon in Mars’ atmosphere and resolve a dilemma about “missing” carbon.

The discovery of numerous faint dwarf galaxies in Fornax suggests that the “missing satellites” are now being found.

Gravitational lensing provides astronomers with a way of probing extremely distant galaxies and groups of galaxies in ways that would otherwise be impossible.

The variable star Algol in Perseus makes a fine target tonight, as it increase more than one magnitude in brightness over the course of the evening. The cycle repeats nearly every 3 days.

Human spaceflight image of the week: how to keep liquids from mixing during a rocket launch

For beachgoers, Australia’s pristine west coast is an ideal location to catch some rays. It is also ideal for catching signals from newly launched rockets and satellites, which is one reason why ESA is redeveloping its tracking capabilities down under.

Data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission are giving new insights into comet dust, nucleus sizes, and production rates for difficult-to-observe gases like carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.

Dense filaments of dark matter particles, called “hairs,” are sprouting from Earth, according to a new study based on computer simulations.

ESA announces the chance for scientists to submit their proposals for the next potential Earth Explorer satellite mission

The next crew to live and work at the Concordia Antarctic research station has arrived in the white desert. ESA-sponsored medical doctor Floris van den Berg will take over experiments for future spaceflight from Beth Healey, who has been a…

A new study proposes the existence of long filaments of dark matter, or “hairs.”

The New Horizons spacecraft captured Pluto rotating over the course of a full “Pluto day.”

Space science image of the week: What do a 19th-century astronomer, an impact basin and a mission to Mars have in common?

NASA’s solar observatory recently emerged from behind the Sun, allowing full monitoring of our star’s activity to resume.

ESA astronaut Tim Peake introduces his six-month Principia mission to the Internatioanl Space Station and what he will be doing in space

The latest satellite for the European Commission’s Copernicus environmental programme has left France bound for the Plesetsk launch site in Russia and launch late next month.

Our week through the lens: 16-20 November 2015

Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2A image of Merida, Spain, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme

Wildfires can wreak havoc on human health, property and communities, so it’s imperative to detect them as early as possible.

Forecasters say this year’s El Niño looks just like the giant event of 1997-98. But when it comes to El Niños, there are no identical twins.

ESA plans to track the health of the world’s vegetation by detecting and measuring the faint glow that plants give off as they convert sunlight and the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide into energy.

Vast volumes of water once flooded through this deep chasm on Mars that connects the ‘Grand Canyon’ of the Solar System – Valles Marineris – to the planet’s northern lowlands.

Join us on Friday, 20 November, at 10:00 CET for the “Earth from Space” video programme. This week features a Sentinel-2A image of Merida, Spain

The star’s extraordinary magnetic field could cause a constant flurry of solar flare-like eruptions.

By measuring the mass of a nearby dwarf galaxy called Triangulum II, a researcher may have found the highest concentration of dark matter in any known galaxy.

The newly found protoplant LkCa 15 b orbits a star 450 light-years away and appears to be on its way to growing into a world similar to Jupiter.

The atmosphere of exoplanets Kepler-438b is thought to have been stripped away as a result of radiation emitted from its superflaring red dwarf host star.

Technology image of the week: materials specialist Tommaso Ghidini showing unearthly-looking 3D-printed part at TEDxESA

The rover will get its first close-up look at these dark “Bagnold Dunes” which skirt the northwestern flank of Mount Sharp.

Like a tricorder from “Star Trek,” the Chemical Laptop is a miniaturized on-the-go laboratory, which researchers hope to send one day to another planetary body such as Mars or Europa.

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: ESA’s operations managers are team leaders, motivating people and managing complex systems and situations on the cutting edge of human exploration

The NASA Mars rover that is studying layers of a Martian mountain will soon get its first taste of the “Bagnold Dunes,” a dark sea of sand along the mountain’s base.

A small laptop-sized device is being developed at JPL to look for amino acids and fatty acids, with potential applications in space.

Space Science Image of the Week: Galaxy Hercules A reveals its spectacular jets

It is the first time scientists have measured the effect that pulsating older red stars have on the light of their surrounding galaxy.

Astronomers discovered winds over 5,400 mph (8,700 km/h) flowing around exoplanet HD 189733 b.

A message from our Director General, Jan Woerner

LISA Pathfinder, launching 2 December, will pave the way for future missions by testing the technology for gravitational wave detection

Our week through the lens: 9-13 November 2015

Scientists picked up indications of a roughly two-year-long variation of gamma rays from a galaxy known as PG 1553+113.

New images show that the massive volcano Loki Patera on Jupiter’s moon Io has changed in the past two years.

Diverse composition of mineral veins at “Garden City” suggest multiple episodes of groundwater activity.

One of Greenland’s glaciers is losing five billion tonnes of ice a year to the ocean, according to researchers. While these new findings may be disturbing, they are reinforced by a concerted effort to map changes in ice sheets with different sensors from space agencies around the world.

Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2A false-colour image of Qingdao and surroundings, in China, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme

As people burn fossil fuels and clear forests, only half of the carbon dioxide released stays in the atmosphere. Earth’s vegetation ecosystems and oceans remove the other half.

Every part of Earth’s surface mosaic absorbs and releases carbon in a different way, with wild-card events complicating the picture.

A new study by NASA and university researchers spells more trouble for Greenland’s Ice Sheet and global sea levels.

During a 9 am PST (noon EST) media teleconference today, NASA and university scientists will discuss new insights, tools and agency research into key carbon and climate change questions.

Join us Friday, 13 November, at 10:00 CET for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-2A image of Qingdao and surroundings, in China

Today, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet revealed the name and logo for his six-month mission to the International Space Station starting next November.

Thomas will be the 10th astronaut from France to head into space and his mission name of P…

Scientists discover a new cloud above haze-shrouded Titan’s south pole, while another researcher thinks that hazy atmospheres elsewhere could be a signature of extraterrestrial life.

This rocky planet, although hot as an oven, is cool enough to potentially host an atmosphere.

One year since Philae made its historic landing on a comet, mission teams remain hopeful for renewed contact with the lander, while also looking ahead to next year’s grand finale: making a controlled impact of the Rosetta orbiter on the comet.

NASA’s NEOWISE mission has observed 158,000 asteroids and discovered more than 35,000 since December 2009.

Diverse composition of mineral veins at the “Garden City” site investigated by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover suggests multiple episodes of groundwater activity.

Get out the blanket and the lawn chair, this year’s show peaks under dark skies November 17.

Scientists have discovered an exoplanet named GJ 1132b, which is Earth-sized and rocky, orbiting a small star located just 39 light-years from Earth. But you wouldn’t want to live there.

Scientists are unraveling where near-Earth asteroids come from

A scientist tries to devise a better definition for a planet.

Technology image of the week: ESA’s planet-spotting Cheops satellite being readied for acoustic testing

An Ariane 5 has delivered two telecom satellites, Arabsat-6B and GSAT-15, into their planned orbits. 

On 11 November 2015 we are launching TEDxESA. Watch the livestream from 17:00 CET

Two experts join the show to tell us more about mapping urban areas from space