News Archive

November 2018

• Euclid progresses with primary mirror delivery

October 2018

• Mars Express keeps an eye on curious cloud
• BepiColombo blasts off to investigate Mercury's mysteries
• Construction of Europe's exoplanet hunter PLATO begins
• Call for a Fast Mission Opportunity in ESA's Science Programme
• Tracing the Universe: X-ray survey supports standard cosmological model
• Student Internships - Closed

September 2018

• ESA Research Fellowships in Space Science - Closed
• BUFFALO charges towards the earliest galaxies [heic1816]
• XMM-Newton 18th Announcement of Opportunity (AO-18)

August 2018

• Saturn's famous hexagon may tower above the clouds
• BepiColombo science orbiters stacked together
• Infant exoplanet weighed by Hipparcos and Gaia
• BepiColombo to target mid-October launch

July 2018

• Planck Final Data Release
• New launch date for James Webb Space Telescope
• INTEGRAL joins multi-messenger campaign to study high-energy neutrino source
• EDAS Workshop 2018 (ESAC 8-11 Oct 2018)
• JWST-Euclid Synergy Workshop (ESTEC 23-27 July 2018)
• Interstellar asteroid is really a comet
• Complex organics bubble from the depths of ocean-world Enceladus

June 2018

• Exploring planetary plasma environments from your laptop
• Call for proposals for an ESA-ESO workshop
• Gaia DR2 Exploration Lab (ESAC 25-29 June 2018)
• Surprising magnetic reconnection spotted on Saturn's dayside
• From horizon to horizon: Celebrating 15 years of Mars Express

May 2018

• A space ant fires its lasers
• BepiColombo arrives at Europe's Spaceport
• ESA selects three new mission concepts for study
• Hubble detects helium in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time [heic1809]
• AO for Community Scientists in the PLATO mission
• 4th AO for Science Planners in the NASA-led IRIS mission - Closed
• Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy – and beyond
• 52nd ESLAB Symposium: “Comparative aeronomy and plasma environment of terrestrial planets” (ESTEC 14-18 May 2018)

April 2018

• Where is the Universe's missing matter?
• How many stars to expect in Gaia's second data release
• Gaia's view of dark interstellar clouds
• Announcement of Opportunity for XARM Participating Scientists - closed

March 2018

• James Webb Space Telescope update: new launch window under review
• Hubble finds first galaxy in the local Universe without dark matter [heic1806]
• ESA's next science mission to focus on nature of exoplanets
• BepiColombo gets green light for launch site
• JWST-Euclid Synergy Conference (ESTEC 23-27 July 2018)
• Donor star breathes life into zombie companion
• Hubble observes exoplanet atmosphere in more detail than ever before [heic1804]

February 2018

• XMM-Newton 2018 Science Workshop (ESAC 13-15 June 2018)
• Chasing a stellar flash with assistance from Gaia
• XMM-Newton spies first clear X-ray flares from massive stellar lighthouse
• A lonely beauty [heic1803]
• Leaky atmosphere linked to lightweight planet

January 2018

• Leaky atmosphere linked to lightweight planet
• Cluster measures turbulence in Earth's magnetic environment
• Save the date: Gaia's second data release set for 25 April
• LISA Pathfinder wins American Astronautical Society award
• JUICE ground control gets green light to start development of Jupiter operations
• Rosetta and Planck honoured in annual Royal Astronomical Society awards

December 2017

• Giant storms cause palpitations in Saturn's atmospheric heartbeat
• Dawn of a galactic collision [heic1720]
• Herschel data links mysterious quasar winds to furious starbursts
• Green light for continued operations of ESA science missions
• Young Graduate Trainee Opportunities (now closed)

November 2017

• Stellar motions in nearby galaxy hint at underlying dark matter
• Hubble and Gaia team up to measure 3D stellar motion with record-breaking precision [heic1719]
• How do you find a star cluster? Easy, simply count the stars
• Herschel discovers galaxy merger in the very early Universe
• Surprisingly erratic X-ray auroras discovered at Jupiter
• Rosetta finds comet plume powered from deep below

October 2017

• INTEGRAL sees blast travelling with gravitational waves
• Hubble observes source of gravitational waves for the first time [heic1717]
• ESTEC Student internships 2018 - Closed
• Gaia data help prepare for a rare celestial alignment of Neptune's largest moon
• Biomarker found in space complicates search for life on exoplanets
• XMM-Newton Announcement of Opportunity (AO-17) - Closed
• Research Fellowships in Space Science - Closed

September 2017

• Unexpected surprise: a final image from Rosetta
• Helicopter test for Jupiter icy moons radar
• ESA/ESO SCIOPS Workshop 2017: "The challenge of distributed science operations" (ESAC 17-20 Oct 2017)
• Science data, discoveries and people: the legacy of ESA's Herschel Space Observatory
• Close encounters of the stellar kind
• Hubble delivers first hints of possible water content of TRAPPIST-1 planets [heic1713]

August 2017

• ESAC JWST Workshop 2017 (ESAC 4-6 Oct 2017)
• The moving Martian bow shock
• Sneak peek of Gaia's sky in colour
• Tracking a solar eruption through the Solar System
• 27th Cluster Workshop (Bled, Slovenia, 11-15 Sep 2017)

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