Kepler-452b orbits the habitable zone of a star in the Cygnus constellation, 1 400 light years away.

It is believed that the icy moons of Jupiter (Ganymede, Europa and Callisto) could host liquid oceans underneath their icy crusts. ESA’s Juice mission will investigate whether these icy moons could ever …

NASA is ESA’s partner in the project. ESA has, among other things, provided the Faint Object Camera, the first two solar wings that powered the spacecraft and a team of space scientists and engineers at …

New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides further evidence for tidal disruption in the galaxy NGC 1052-DF4. This result explains a previous finding that this galaxy is missing most of …

The ESA Star Mapper is a visualisation tool, developed by ESA and TULP interactive, featuring data from the ESA Hipparcos mission

NASA’s 2009 Kepler mission was an exoplanet discovery machine, accounting for almost three-quarters of all exoplanet discoveries to date. It looked at a fixed patch of sky for over four years, monitoring …

2 days ago · The Risk List is a catalogue of all objects for which a non-zero impact probability has been computed. Each entry contains details on the particular Earth approach which poses the highest risk …

Mar 28, 2019 · Clear images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have provided researchers with new insight into asteroid Gault's unusual past. The object is 4–9 kilometres wide and has two …

3 days ago · Every month dozens of NEAs come within 0.05 au of Earth. The following table presents the list of these forthcoming and recent close approaches, with details concerning the encounter …

Feb 1, 2024 · NASA/ESA/CSA JWST - James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021. It is the next great space science observatory following Hubble, designed to answer outstanding questions about …

The file included here extracts the period 2009-2013, covering the duration of the Herschel mission.

Plato will identify interesting targets for further investigation by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and by ground-based observatories. Plato’s discoveries will be complemented by …

The launch of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope marks the start of an acceleration in the field of exoplanetary atmospheres. James Webb measured the atmosphere of WASP-39 b in …

In order to improve our services, and to align with other ESA establishments, downtime of our Datacentre is scheduled for the period between 5-10 December, starting at 17:00 on Friday 5 …

Sep 1, 2019 · 51 Pegasi b – the exoplanet discovered by Mayor and Queloz – is a Jupiter-mass planet that orbits close to its star, which results in a relatively large radial velocity signal.

Dec 15, 2020 · The CoRoT and Kepler space telescopes revolutionised the field of exoplanets, and we can look forward to an exciting period ahead with the upcoming space missions. Building on what …

Aug 12, 2012 · In October 1923, using the Hooker telescope, Hubble spotted what he first thought was a nova star flaring up dramatically in the Andromeda 'nebula'.

Mar 30, 2020 · Our understanding of orbits, first established by Johannes Kepler in the 17th century, remains foundational even after 400 years. Today, Europe continues this legacy with a family of …

This dashboard provides a snapshot of the current space weather conditions based on the latest products from the SWE Network.

One of ESA’s cornerstone missions, it will study and understand the composition, geophysics, atmosphere, magnetosphere and history of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner Solar …