Slam Corp, the shell company founded by former MLB player Alex Rodriguez, is suing Lynk Global to stop the direct-to-smartphone satellite operator from walking away from their long-delayed merger.

ESA’s week-long Living Planet Symposium is in full swing in Vienna, Austria, drawing scientists and researchers from around the world. This flagship event focuses on the latest breakthroughs in Earth science and highlights the advanced space technologies used to observe and understand our changing planet. Throughout the week, we’ll be covering the bigger stories in depth, but we’re also sharing some daily snapshots of other significant happenings. 

The major highlight of today was the signing of a landmark agreement between ESA and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. 

Iceland is one of the most active volcanic regions in the world, but its seismic nature is part of a much broader geological history.

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists, supported by an ESA-funded project, have uncovered the underlying forces that forged the North Atlantic’s fiery volcanic past – shedding light on the vast geological region that spans from Greenland to western Europe, which is home to iconic natural wonders like the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland.