Find out how ESA's mobile laboratory on wheels at ESTEC tests 5G New Radio links with satellites in low orbit, why the Q-band and reliable „handovers“ are key, and what Europe expects from the EuCNC & 6G Summit in Málaga in early June 2026. We also provide background on ESA's Space for 5G/6G & Sustainable Connectivity programme.
Learn how the James Webb Telescope, using the NIRSpec instrument, during 15 hours of observing Uranus, revealed the layers of its ionosphere up to about 5,000 km in altitude, where two auroral bands form and a dark zone appears between them. We explain what an average of 426 K means and why the upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades.
Find out what ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot’s εpsilon mission brings to the ISS: from her role in the Columbus and Kibo laboratories to a series of European experiments on health, climate, and technology. We bring the key facts about the Crew-12 flight and the crew’s work. The crew docked with the station on 14 February 2026, and the stay is planned for up to nine months.
Find out how NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, planned for launch by 2027 and potentially as early as 2026, captures Hubble-level detail over a vast area of the sky and uses gravitational lensing and redshift to search for traces of dark matter and dark energy. We bring an overview of the survey that will cover about 12% of the sky and collect spectra for about 20 million galaxies.
Learn how NASA and ESA’s Hubble recorded the Egg Nebula in Cygnus, a rare pre-planetary nebula about 1,000 light-years away. New data reveal beams of light, a dusty disk, and possible traces of hidden companions as the star discards its outer layers, and why this phase is crucial for the formation of planetary nebulae.
Learn how Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar satellites and GNSS measurements have measured millimeter-scale displacements of the Tibetan Plateau. We bring you today what the COMET team and the University of Leeds conclude about weaker faults, especially Kunlun, and how such maps can improve seismic hazard models.