The European Space Agency has signed a letter of intent with Norway to advance the prospect of a new ESA Arctic Space Centre to be hosted in Tromsø. 

The first high-resolution images have been received from Copernicus Sentinel-1D and were shared publicly for the first time at the European Space Agency’s Ministerial Council, held today in Bremen, Germany. Glaciers in Antarctica, the tip of South America, as well as the city of Bremen, are visible in these stunning radar images.

Launched just a little over three months ago, Copernicus Sentinel-5A has returned its first images – including a global map of ozone, maps of nitrogen dioxide over the Middle East and South Africa, formaldehyde over parts of Africa, and emissions of sulphur dioxide from an active volcano in Russia – showcasing the mission’s powerful capability to monitor atmospheric gases worldwide.

Image: Ministers and high-level representatives gather for ESA's Ministerial Council

Cambridge, MA (SPX) Nov 21, 2025
Some 200 light years from Earth, the core of a dead star is circling a larger star in a macabre cosmic dance. The dead star is a type of white dwarf that exerts a powerful magnetic field as it pulls material from the larger star into a swirling, accreting disk. The spiraling pair is what's known as an "intermediate polar" - a type of star system that gives off a complex pattern of intense radiat

Dubendorf, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 25 2025
Empa specialists carried out a comprehensive study of the EURECA European satellite, employing non-destructive X-ray imaging to investigate its internal features after the spacecraft's return from orbit. EURECA, launched in 1992 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis by Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier, completed eleven months in orbit before its recovery by Space Shuttle Endeavour and return to Earth in