Space science
Rosetta spacecraft and 6 billion km journey to comets
The Rosetta spacecraft took 10 years to cross the journey of more than 6 billion km to bring the robot Philae to land and study comets 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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Space science
ESA intends for spacecraft to crash into comets?
The European Space Agency (ESA) has recently proposed that Rosetta spacecraft rush into the comet surface 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Then there will be 2 scenarios, or…
Space science
ESA wants to build a base on the moon
The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to build a space base on the moon. This base may replace the International Space Station (ISS) in the future.
Space science
Asteroids are at risk of colliding with the Earth
Scientists fear a large-sized asteroid like the American Statue of Liberty could endanger the Earth in 2017.
Space science
Europe builds on the Moon
In the late 60s of the last century, humans set foot on the Moon. Currently, European scientists intend to build a base on the moon.
Space science
Europe will bring robots to the moon
The European Space Agency will design an extremely sophisticated robot to explore the moon in the future.
Environment
A 300km ice block suddenly melted in the Antarctic Peninsula
Using data from satellites including the European Space Agency's (ESA) CryoSat-2 satellite, researchers at the University of Bristol have found ice melting in the southe…
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Photograph of the Milky Way from the Gaia ship
The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft has sent back to Earth rare images of the Milky Way.
Videos
Video: Detecting the Earth's second magnetic field
The very weak and very weak second-formed magnetic field was discovered by three European Space Agency (ESA) satellites.
Videos
Gorgeous 4K timelapse from 109GB image space taken by NASA
NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) published their images and videos about the universe while they studied space. These published materials are open to the public and…
Science Events
Poland is a member of the European space agency
On September 13, Poland became the 20th member of the European Space Agency (ECA), after representatives of the Polish and ECA governments exchanged corresponding agreem…
Medicine - Health
When astronauts fly into space, astronauts will be thinner
In the mission of exploring astronauts, astronauts find that their skin is thinner than usual when flying into space. Scientists are conducting research to understand th…