Astronomers, focus your telescopes!
© CORDIS.EUROPA.eu 05/06/08
The virtual telescope, which is almost 11,000 kilometres in diameter, connects telescopes from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Chile, Puerto Rico and South Africa
EarthCARE satellite contract signed
© ESA.int 27/05/08
The European Space Agency and Astrium GmbH have today signed a contract worth ?263m to provide the EarthCARE satellite, the sixth Earth Explorer mission of ESA's Living Planet Programme
Artificial intelligence tackles data transmission from space
© CORDIS.EUROPA.eu 21/05/08
Flash back to 1956 where scientists are brainstorming and writing breakthrough programs in the field of Artificial intelligence (AI)
New model helps to calculate energy output of stars
© CORDIS.EUROPA.eu 20/05/08
Their findings have implications for our understanding of how galaxies are born and evolve
Yes, galaxies do expel black holes!
© CORDIS.EUROPA.eu 20/05/08
A new black hole being expelled from its parent galaxy, following the merging of two black holes
Key molecule discovered in Venus's atmosphere
© ESA.int 15/05/08
This detection gives scientists an important new tool to unlock the workings of Venus's dense atmosphere
Artificial intelligence boosts science from Mars
© ESA.int 29/04/08
Since January 2004, Mars Express has been using its sophisticated instruments to study the atmosphere, surface and subsurface of Mars, confirming the presence of water and looking for other signatures of life on and below the Red Planet's rocky terrain
Herschel spacecraft assembly complete
© ESA.int 23/04/08
The sunshield and solar arrays were assembled with the cryostat and service module on 11 April. The telescope was assembled on 16 April. The spacecraft will be subjected to several mechanical tests over the next few weeks
Wanted: highly-motivated applicants for human space flight
© CORDIS.EUROPA.eu 15/04/08
This is the ESA's fourth astronaut selection process in 30 years, and comes 16 years after the previous recruitment drive, which provided the human resources for the Columbus laboratory project aboard the ISS
Venus Express reboots the search for active volcanoes on Venus
© ESA.int 04/04/08
The search for volcanoes is a long-running thread in the exploration of Venus
UK astronomers discover youngest-ever planet
© CORDIS.EUROPA.eu 03/04/08
Using the Very Large Array (VLA) of radio telescopes in the US, astronomers led by Jane Greaves of the University of St Andrews in the UK studied the ball of gas and rocky particles around the star HL Tau
Ocean may exist beneath Titan's crust
© ESA.int 25/03/08
The findings were made using radar measurements of Titan's rotation
