Copernical Team
The curious case of why methane spiked around Covid
With fewer cars on the road, planes in the air and factories running, the skies seemed cleaner during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, while there was a decline in pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, scientists were surprised to see that methane surged in the early 2020s and then dropped – and now they know why.
Why has SpaceX not launched from Kennedy Space Center this year?
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NASA Langley makes final preparations for Artemis II mission to launch around the moon
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A presidential greeting ahead of Sophie Adenot's first spaceflight
ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher joined French President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace for an event celebrating the first spaceflight of ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot.
The coming end of ISS, symbol of an era of global cooperation
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New crew set to launch for ISS after medical evacuation
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Three ways R&D has shaped Galileo Second Generation
Dedicated research and development, funded by European Union (EU) and European Space Agency (ESA) programmes over the years, has played a key role in Galileo Second Generation.
Among the innovations that will benefit the new satellites are the development of new atomic clocks, links that allow the satellites to ‘talk’ to one another in orbit and a prototype ground station that can precisely pinpoint satellites in the sky. These advanced technologies will ensure Galileo continues to provide world‑class positioning, navigation and timing to users worldwide.
Ancient lungfish fossils refine early vertebrate story
New research from Australian and Chinese scientists is filling key gaps in the evolutionary story of some of the oldest fishes on Earth, including early lungfishes closely related to land vertebrates.
In two separate studies, researchers have re-examined fossil material from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation in Western Australia and described a new lungfish species from 410 million-year-old Study maps thousands of non native plants that could colonize Arctic
Species that are not native to an area can displace the species that already live there, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Nature has identified invasive alien organisms as one of the greatest threats to global biodiversity. Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the University of Liverpool have now produced a systematic scan of which alien vascular plants could Artemis II teams step through full-scale launch rehearsal at Kennedy
The countdown for NASA's Artemis II wet dress rehearsal is underway at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking a key test before the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft in the Artemis campaign to return astronauts to the Moon.
The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, secured to the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B, wil