
Copernical Team
ESA uses terrestrial rocks to recreate the Moon’s surface

Two state-of-the-art ESA facilities are working closely to develop a simulated lunar environment that will serve as a proving ground for future exploration technologies.
China's civil military dual-use space strategy

Accurate snow mapping achieved in Switzerland through innovative AI-satellite technology

Bolivia’s hypergravity blood cell test for astronaut health

The latest international group to employ ESA’s hypergravity-generating Large Diameter Centrifuge is an all-female team from Bolivia, with access sponsored by the United Nations and ESA. The researchers are investigating whether the high gravity levels experienced during rocket launches might contribute to the anemia afflicting many astronauts in space.
Gaia's 10th anniversary

Ten years ago, on 19 December 2013, ESA’s billion star-mapping satellite Gaia launched. Since then, Gaia has been scanning the sky and gathering an enormous amount of data on the positions and motions of 1.8 billion stars, enabling numerous discoveries about the history of our galaxy.
Gaia’s catalogue is ever-growing containing data on stars and other cosmic objects such as asteroids in our Solar System, exoplanets, binary stars, and other galaxies. The Gaia collaboration, consisting of about 450 people in 25 countries, prepares the data for scientific use. This has resulted in publications of over 10 000 scientific papers
Gaia’s decade of discoveries: unravelling the intricacies of our galaxy

Hera’s wings of power

After a 12-day hiatus, launches resume on the Space Coast

The feline frontier: NASA sends cat video from deep space

NASA's GUSTO Prepares to Map Space Between the Stars
