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Hinode reveals new insights about the origin of solar wind
Images from NASA-funded telescopes aboard a Japanese satellite have shed new light about the sun's magnetic field and the origins of solar wind, which disrupts power grids, satellites and communications on Earth.   view more (2007-12-07)

EC - ESA Joint Task Force on European Strategy for Space meets for the first time in Brussels
The EC - ESA Joint Task Force, whose purpose is to implement the European Strategy for Space, met for the first time in Brussels today. The main items on the agenda were establishing a work plan for the coming year, analysing the present situation of the Galileo project and discussing the concept... view more (2001-03-01)

Europe's Mercury mission swings into action
The European Space Agency (ESA) signalled the start of a busy period for the planet Mercury, when it signed the contract for industrial development to start for the BepiColombo mission today (18th January 2008) at Astrium in Friedrichshafen, Germany. UK scientists and industry have key roles in... view more (2008-01-21)

Satellite images of Asian disaster
A week after the tsunami that hit Asia on 26 December the death toll is still rising. Nearly 140 000 people are confirmed dead, more than 1.8 million people need food aid and an estimated five million are homeless.   view more (2005-01-03)

ESA takes steps toward quantum communications
A team of European scientists has proved within an ESA study that the weird quantum effect called 'entanglement' remains intact over a distance of 144 kilometres.   view more (2007-06-13)

100 Photographs in the Blink of an Eye
Scientists from the Universities of Sheffield and Southampton in collaboration with the UK Astronomy Technology Centre at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh have just opened a new window on the Universe by commissioning ULTRACAM - an ultra-fast camera which can take up to 1000 pictures a second in... view more (2002-07-24)

Listen to the radio from an ISS spacesuit
If you were asked what station is currently orbiting 400 km above the Earth at 28 000 km/h you may be tempted to answer the International Space Station (ISS).   view more (2006-02-06)

Supernova birth seen for first time
Astronomers have seen the aftermath of spectacular stellar explosions known as supernovae before, but until now no one has witnessed a star dying in real time.   view more (2008-05-22)

Mind the gap: Space scientists uncover causes of gap in Van Allen belts
A team of British and US scientists have discovered that the gap in the Van Allen radiation belts is formed by natural wave turbulence in space, not by lightning.   view more (2006-09-27)

Launch of weather satellite CD-ROM
The CD-ROM has been produced on behalf of the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites Meteorological Satellites (CGMS). Its production follows nearly 40 years of data from space, helping improve meteorology, monitoring of the climate, the state of the oceans, land surfaces and planetary... view more (1999-08-17)

Space technology for McLaren at the British Grand Prix
At the British Grand Prix next weekend, the McLaren team will have a special boost from space technology: their mechanics` suits will feature a cooling system, specially developed from the astronauts` suits by the Technology Transfer Programme of the European Space Agency. The McLaren mechanics`... view more (2002-07-05)

Young Stars in Old Galaxies - a Cosmic Hide and Seek Game
Surprise Discovery with World`s Leading Telescopes Combining data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT), a group of European and American astronomers have made an unexpected, major discovery. They have identified a huge number of "young" stellar... view more (2002-06-26)

Black holes, galaxies young and old visible in massive mapping of the night sky
Color images documenting the past 10 billion years of galactic evolution were distributed online this week as part of the first public release of data from a massive project to map a distant region of the universe that combines the efforts of nearly 100 researchers from around the world, including... view more (2007-10-04)

ESA's XMM-Newton gains deep insights into the distant Universe
Using XMM-Newton, astronomers have obtained the world's deepest 'wide screen' X-ray image of the cosmos to date. Their observations show newly discovered clusters of galaxies and provide insights into the structure of the distant Universe"¦ Unlike grains of sand on a beach, matter is not... view more (2003-07-14)

Old Galaxies in the Young Universe
Very Large Telescope Unravels New Population of Very Old Massive Galaxies [1] Current theories of the formation of galaxies are based on the hierarchical merging of smaller entities into larger and larger structures, starting from about the size of a stellar globular cluster and ending with... view more (2004-07-06)

SARS From Outer Space? (p 1832)
An alternative theory to the origin of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is proposed by scientists in a letter in this week's issue of THE LANCET--that the disease may have originated in outer space. Chandra Wickramasinghe from Cardiff University, UK, and colleagues describe how around a... view more (2003-05-21)

Detector systems science and technology experts meet at University of Leicester
A prestigious international conference at the University of Leicester is set to further enhance the University’s standing as a world-leading centre in space science research. The University is hosting the Sixth International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors (PSD6) between September... view more (2002-09-04)

The Changing Face of Space Robotics
Dr Eddie Moxey of the University of Surrey recently gave a speech at the IEE seminar on the Changing Face of Robotics. His speech concentrated on the use of robotics in space.   view more (2004-11-24)

ESA`s Belgian astronaut returns from Odissea mission
ESA PR 71-20052. ESA astronaut Frank De Winne came back to Earth today (Sunday, 10 November 2002) after a successful Soyuz mission to the International Space Station involving nine days of ground- breaking scientific research and the delivery of a brand new TMA-1 Soyuz spacecraft. Odissea -... view more (2002-11-10)

Research Fortnight 29 May issue: stories on space science, the spending review, Diamond, energy and veterinary research.
UK space science dead in 10 years, group warns The UK's influence in space science will vanish within the next decade if current trends in funding are not reversed, according to a new campaign group. The Space Action Network aims to raise awareness of the problems faced by the space science... view more (2002-05-29)

The Drifting Star
By studying in great detail the 'ringing' of a planet-harbouring star, a team of astronomers using ESO's 3.6-m telescope have shown that it must have drifted away from the metal-rich Hyades cluster. This discovery has implications for theories of star and planet formation, and for the dynamics of... view more (2008-04-16)

Hubble yields direct proof of stellar sorting in a globular cluster
A seven year study with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the best observational evidence yet that globular clusters sort out stars according to their mass, governed by a gravitational billiard ball game between stars.   view more (2006-10-25)

The first 3-D map of the universe
By analyzing the COSMOS field, the largest field of galaxies ever observed with the Hubble space telescope, an international team of scientists led by researchers from the California Institute of Technology (United States) and researchers from the associated laboratories of the CNRS and the CEA ,... view more (2007-03-05)

ESA and Eurocontrol sign cooperation agreement on using space technology for civil aviation
A five-year renewable Agreement for Cooperation was signed today in Brussels by the Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), Antonio Rodot' , and the Director General of Eurocontrol, Victor M. Aguado. The Agreement establishes a general framework for cooperation and support between... view more (2002-07-26)

A Stellar Explosion You Could See on Earth!
Astronomers are familiar with seeing amazing things through their telescopes. But nothing prepared them for an incredible explosion detected early Wednesday morning by NASA's Swift satellite. At 2:12 a.m. EDT, Swift detected an explosion from deep space that was so powerful that its afterglow was... view more (2008-03-24)
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