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First Italian astronaut to be flown to the International Space Station on board a Russian spacecraft
ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori will become the first Italian to lift off from Baikonur on board a Russian Soyuz vehicle on 25 April 2002, when he starts a ten-day mission - codenamed `Marco Polo` - to the International Space Station. ASI is the agency sponsoring this flight and the related... view more (2002-02-21)

Alaska Space Grant program launches B.E.A.R.
The Alaska Space Grant Program and the Arctic Amateur Radio Club formed the Balloon Experiment And Research Program-or B.E.A.R. for short-in December 2007.   view more (2008-06-04)

Scientists weigh ingredients in recipe of the Universe
An international team of scientists from Cambridge, Manchester and Tenerife has released the first results of new high-precision observations of the relic radiation from the Big Bang, often called the cosmic microwave background or CMB. These observations have been made with a novel radio telescope... view more (2002-05-23)

ESA astronaut returns to Earth after Space Station `taxi` flight
A mission to the International Space Station returned to Earth today after successfully delivering a new `lifeboat` to the Station for use by the resident crew in the event of an emergency on board. The cosmopolitan crew of the Marco Polo flight comprised ESA`s Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori,... view more (2002-05-05)

ESA astronaut on Russian flight to Space Station
A cosmopolitan crew representing the nations of Italy, Russia and South Africa will make history when they are launched into space next week from the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan. Roberto Vittori, 37, a former Italian Air Force test pilot now a member of ESA`s astronaut corps, will be the... view more (2002-04-16)

Space technology helps win race at Estoril
Pescarolo Sport won Sunday's race at Estoril in Portugal, the first in the 7-event FIA Sportscar Championship, helped by technology originally designed for ESA's space programme. The partnership between Pescarolo Sport and ESA's Technology Transfer Programme (TTP) began in December last year. Its... view more (2003-04-16)

Successful lift-off for Italian on first mission into space
ESA PR 30-2002. The latest European astronaut was launched to the International Space Station today when the Marco Polo flight and its three-strong crew thundered into the midday skies in a perfect lift-off from the wide open plains of Baikonur, Kazakhstan at 12:26 local time (06:26 GMT). Italian... view more (2002-04-25)

New evidence for dark energy in the universe
An international team of astronomers, led by scientists at the University of Manchester have produced new evidence that most of the energy in the Universe is in the form of the mysterious "Dark Energy". The new evidence comes from a 10-year census of the sky for examples of gravitational lenses,... view more (2002-11-09)

Media invitation - ESA fund to give students hands-on experience of International Space Station and space
ESA PR 48-2003. 28 August will be an important day for ESA: not only will the SMART-1 spacecraft be launched into space heading for the Moon, but a launch of a different kind will take place at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne. Leading figures from industry, government, science and... view more (2003-08-06)

Gas giants jump into planet formation early
Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that gas giants either form within the first 10 million years of a sun-like star's life, or not at all.   view more (2007-01-09)

A Warm South Pole? Yes, on Neptune!
An international team of astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope has discovered that the south pole of Neptune is much hotter than the rest of the planet. This is consistent with the fact that it is late southern summer and this region has been in sunlight for about 40 years.   view more (2007-09-19)

Press Invitation: At the Cutting Edge - Technology Partnerships with PPARC
Journalists are invited to attend a showcase event on 12 February at the QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London, which demonstrates how UK companies can, and have, benefited from technology partnerships with PPARC`s academic community. Case study presentations will include:- * Airways and... view more (2002-02-01)

The Scientific Case For Human Spaceflight
Forty years ago, on 12 April 1961, the era of human spaceflight dawned when Yuri Gagarin completed a single, 108 minute, orbit of the Earth on board Vostok 1. Exactly 20 years later, on 12 April 1981, the first U.S. Space Shuttle, Columbia, was launched from Cape Canaveral. In April 2001, the... view more (2001-03-30)

Space tourism to rocket in this century, researchers predict
Seeking an out-of-this-world travel destination? Outer space will rocket into reality as "the" getaway of this century, according to researchers at the University of Delaware and the University of Rome La Sapienza.   view more (2008-02-22)

Telescope embedded in glasses lens promises to make driving easier for visually impaired
Glasses embedded with a telescope promise to make it easier for people with impaired vision to drive and do other activities requiring sharper distance vision.   view more (2008-07-25)

New study reveals twice as many asteroids as previously believed
Asteroids in our Solar System may be more numerous than previously thought, according to the first systematic search for these objects performed in the infrared, with ESA`s Infrared Space Observatory, ISO. The ISO Deep Asteroid Search indicates that there are between 1.1 million and 1.9 million... view more (2002-04-05)

Monitoring African gorillas - a joint ESA/UNESCO initiative
A pilot project using space technology to monitor the gorilla habitat in Central/East Africa is being presented today by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). At the 52nd International Astronautical Congress, in Toulouse,... view more (2001-10-02)

ESA's Rosetta mission: A status report
Following the decision not to launch Europe's comet chaser Rosetta in January, scientists and engineers in the programme have been examining several alternative mission scenarios. Each has been looked at on the basis of the expected scientific return, the technical risks related to using the... view more (2003-03-21)

Three more DMC spacecraft prepare for launch
SSTL are preparing for the launch of three more spacecraft in the international Disaster Monitoring Constellation - the first cluster of satellites dedicated to monitoring disasters from space. The three spacecraft, each with a mass of approximately 100kg, have arrived at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in... view more (2003-09-15)

Hinode: new insights on the origin of solar wind
Spectacular images and data from the Hinode mission have shed new light on the Sun's magnetic field and the origins of solar wind, which can disrupt power grids, satellites and communications on Earth.   view more (2007-12-10)

Media Invite: UK decision on ESA's Aurora Programme
The media are invited to attend a briefing at which the UK's decision on participation in the European Space Agency's 'Preparatory Phase of the European Space Exploration Programme' [ESEP - previously known as Aurora] will be announced.   view more (2004-09-29)

UCF professor finds that hottest measured extrasolar planet is 3700 degrees
"HD 149026b is simply the most exotic, bizarre planet," Harrington said. "It's pretty small, really dense, and now we find that it's extremely hot."   view more (2007-05-10)

Media invitation - Ten astronauts train in Europe for the ISS: Meet them in Cologne!
ESA PR 56-2002. From 26 August to 6 September, ESA`s European Astronaut Centre (EAC), in Cologne, Germany, is for the first time hosting an international group of astronauts for training, in preparation for their missions to the International Space Station. There will be ten participants: four... view more (2002-08-19)

Powerful Nearby Supernova Caught By Web
One of the nearest supernovas in the last 25 years has been identified over a decade after it exploded. This result was made possible by combining data from the vast online archives from many of the world's premier telescopes.   view more (2008-09-26)

ESO`s VLT Helps ESA`s Rosetta Spacecraft Prepare to Ride on a Cosmic Bullet
New Images of Comet Wirtanen`s Nucleus New images of Comet Wirtanen`s 1-km `dirty snowball` nucleus have been obtained with the ESO Very Large Telescope at Paranal (Chile). They show this object at a distance of approx. 435 million km from the Sun, about the same as when the Rosetta spacecraft of... view more (2002-02-26)
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