Find out how the AnomalyMatch tool, developed by ESA researchers, searched nearly 100 million cutouts from the Hubble Legacy Archive and in a short time extracted more than 1300 rare phenomena, including hundreds of previously undocumented anomalies. We bring you what this means for the search for gravitational lenses, galaxy collisions, and other cosmic 'needles in a haystack'.
Find out what the first images from Meteosat Third Generation-Sounder (MTG-S1) presented in Brussels reveal: the new infrared sounder measures temperature and humidity in atmospheric layers, helps spot storms over Europe and North Africa earlier, and carries Copernicus Sentinel-4 for hourly pollution monitoring.
Learn how ESA’s Biomass, the first satellite with a P-band SAR radar, is moving into scientific operations after commissioning and opening free data on forest biomass and carbon stocks. We report on what the first maps from Central Africa, airborne calibration over Gabon, and the workshop in Ljubljana mean, and why they are important for climate policies.
Find out how ESA's ORBIT at the Dutch ESTEC creates microgravity conditions on an ultra-flat floor and what three student teams from Europe tested there: a robotic arm that autonomously “crawls” over structures, a VR experiment on vertical perception, and a gecko-gripper for capturing non-cooperative objects in orbit.
Find out what the VA267 mission brings: Ariane 6 in the more powerful Ariane 64 version is set to carry 32 Amazon Leo satellites from Kourou, with a target date of February 12, 2026. We cover how integration is progressing, what the P120C boosters mean, why the 18-launch contract is important, and how Canopée delivers main rocket parts.
Find out how NASA’s James Webb telescope, using the MIRI instrument, in the protostar EC 53 system in the Serpens Nebula for the first time connected the formation of crystalline silicates in the hot inner disk with their transport toward the cold outer edges, where comets can form over time. We bring an overview of what this means for understanding the formation of planets and comets in young systems.