News Archive

January 2019

• Team of telescopes finds X-ray engine inside mysterious supernova
• XMM-Newton captures final cries of star shredded by black hole

November/December 2018

• Key milestone for Euclid mission, now ready for final assembly
• December comet brings back Rosetta memories
• Exoplanet mission launch slot announced
• Young Graduate Trainee Opportunities - Closed
• Extended life for ESA's science missions
• 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