News Archive

July 2017

• Galactic David and Goliath [heic1712]
• Has Cassini found a universal driver for prebiotic chemistry at Titan?
• Preparing for Mercury: BepiColombo stack completes testing
• Artificial brain helps Gaia catch speeding stars

June 2017

• Gravitational wave mission selected, planet-hunting mission moves forward
• LISA Pathfinder to conclude trailblazing mission
• The future of the Orion constellation
• Rosetta finds comet connection to Earth's atmosphere
• CHEOPS Science Workshop and Open Time Workshop
• New NELIOTA project detects flashes from lunar impacts
• The final frontier of the Frontier Fields [heic1711]

May 2017

• Countdown to Cassini's Grand Finale
• Detector delivery marks another Euclid milestone
• ESA identifies new science ideas for future space missions
• 3rd announcement of opportunity for science planners in the NASA-led IRIS mission
• The X-ray Universe 2017 (Rome 6-9 June 2017)

April 2017

• O marks the spot for magnetic reconnection
• Exoplanet mission gets ticket to ride
• Solar Orbiter Workshop 7 (Granada 3-7 April 2017)

March 2017

• Before and after: unique changes spotted on Rosetta's comet
• ESA's Jupiter mission moves off the drawing board
• Young Graduate Trainee Opportunity - Closed
• Science with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes V (Venice 20-24 March 2017)

February 2017

• Rapid changes point to origin of ultra-fast black hole winds
• Cosmic blast from the past [heic1704]
• First Euclid flight hardware delivered
• Mind the Gap: Rapid Burster behaviour explained

January 2017

• Gaia turns its eyes to asteroid hunting
• CHEOPS solar arrays tested and built
• Rosetta's last words: science descending to a comet

December 2016

• Festive nebulae light up Milky Way Galaxy satellite [heic1623]
• Workshop ices in the Solar System (ESAC 23-27 Jan 2017)
• Two-year extensions confirmed for ESA's science missions
• Icy surprises at Rosetta's comet
• Call for mission concepts for the large-size “L3” mission opportunity in ESA’s Science Programme

November 2016

• Mars' ionosphere shaped by crustal magnetic fields
• Gaia spies two temporarily magnified stars

October 2016

• Mission complete: Rosetta’s journey ends in daring descent to comet
• ESTEC Student internships 2017 - Application deadline closed
• A&A Special Feature on Planck 2015 results published
• Gaia's billion-star map hints at treasures to come
• Gaia 2016 Data Release #1 Workshop (ESAC 2-4 Nov 2016)

September 2016

• XMM-Newton Announcement of Opportunity (AO-16)
• Research Fellow applications - Closed
• Astronomers observe star reborn in a flash [heic1618]
• Philae found!
• First stars formed even later than previously thought

August 2016

• Imaging tiny comet dust in 3D
• How comets are born
• White dwarf lashes red dwarf with mystery ray [heic1616]
• Announcement of Opportunity for the operations and scientific exploitation of the SPICE instrument on board the Solar Orbiter mission

July 2016

• Space... the final frontier [heic1615]
• What lies beneath: Venus' surface revealed through the clouds
• JWST Workshop (ESAC 26-28 Sep 2016)
• Gravitational vortex provides new way to study matter close to a black hole
• The curious case of Earth's leaking atmosphere
• Rosetta finale set for 30 September

June 2016

• Rosetta finale set for 30 September
• LISA Pathfinder completes first operations phase
• Venus has potential – but not for water
• CHEOPS Science Workshop (Geneva 21-23 June 2016)
• LISA Pathfinder exceeds expectations
• Hubble finds Universe may be expanding faster than expected [heic1611]
• Call for a Medium-size mission opportunity in ESA's Science Programme (M5)
• Meteoroids 2016 Conference (ESTEC 6-10 June 2016)

May 2016

• Are mystery Mars plumes caused by space weather?
• Close-up of the Red Planet [heic1609]
• Powerful winds spotted from mysterious X-ray binaries
• Profile of a methane sea on Titan

April 2016

• Powerful winds spotted from mysterious X-ray binaries
• Profile of a methane sea on Titan
• Venus Express' swansong experiment sheds light on Venus' polar atmosphere
• Interstellar dust intercepted at Saturn
• The colour-changing comet
• Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place [heic1607]
• Found: Andromeda's first spinning neutron star
• Water in the Universe: From Clouds to Oceans (ESTEC 12-15 April 2016)

March 2016

• Rosetta finds magnetic field-free bubble at comet
• A perfectly still laboratory in space
• Freefall achieved on LISA Pathfinder
• Announcement of Opportunity - WFIRST Formulation Science Working Group
• Announcement of Opportunity - New Science Ideas
• 50th ESLAB Symposium - From Giotto to Rosetta (Leiden 14-18 March 2016)

February 2016

• Liftoff for ASTRO-H, now in orbit as Hitomi
• Test cubes floating freely inside LISA Pathfinder
• Inside Rosetta's comet
• First locks released from LISA Pathfinder's cubes

January 2016

• INTEGRAL X-rays Earth's aurora
• LISA Pathfinder arrives at its worksite
• A Milky Way twin swept by an ultra-fast X-ray wind
• ASTRO-H satellite ready for launch
• Lights on for LISA Pathfinder
• Euclid dark Universe mission ready to take shape

December 2015

• The awakened force of a star [heic1526]
• LISA Pathfinder en route to gravitational wave demonstration
• SOHO celebrates 20 years of discoveries
• Young Graduate Trainee Opportunities for 2016 - Closed

November 2015

• Another Dimension: 3D visualisation redefines Milky Way's local architecture
• Rosetta and Philae: one year since landing on a comet
• Gaia's sensors scan a lunar transit
• First detection of molecular oxygen at a comet
• Hubble spies Big Bang frontiers [heic1523]

October 2015

• ESTEC Student placements 2016 - Closed
• Three new studies create mission proposal opportunities
• The Accretion/Outflow Connection in YSOs Workshop (ESTEC 27-29 Oct 2015)
• LISA Pathfinder arrives at launch site
• 25th Cluster workshop (Venice 12-16 Oct 2015)
• 49th ESLAB: Exploring the Universe with JWST (ESTEC 12-16 Oct 2015)

September 2015

• Astronomers find galaxy cluster with bursting heart [heic 1519]
• Herschel and Planck honoured with Space Systems Award
• 2015 Research Fellowship applications - Closed
• INTEGRAL workshop "The New High-Energy Sky after a Decade of Discoveries" (Rome 5-9 Oct 2015)

August 2015

• Rosetta's big day in the Sun
• Planck Legacy Archive: 2015 data delivery is complete
• The first scientific Athena conference: Exploring the Hot and Energetic Universe (8-10 September 2015, ESAC)
• Science on the surface of a comet
• Stormy seas in Sagittarius [heic1517]

July 2015

• Cluster solves the mystery of equatorial noise
• Rosetta preparing for perihelion
• New Tool for Astronomers – Second Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources Released
• Astronomers use cosmic gravity to create a 'black-hole-scope'
• Monster black hole wakes up after 26 years
• Hot lava flows discovered on Venus

June 2015

• Rosetta's lander Philae wakes up from hibernation
• Three candidates for ESA's next medium-class science mission

May 2015

• The Extremes of Black Hole Accretion. (8-10 June 2015, ESAC)
• Herschel's hunt for filaments in the Milky Way
• Retirement in the suburbs - Hubble traces the migration of white dwarfs in cluster 47 Tucanae [heic1510]