ESA's Planetary Defence team The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the naming of ten asteroids – and one comet – after people and places linked to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) efforts to protect…
Liftoff for Cheops, ESA’s exoplanet mission
ESA European Space Agency (ESA)’s Cheops mission lifted off on a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, at 09:54:20 CET on 18 December on its exciting mission to characterise planets orbiting stars…
A closer look at the diabetes disaster
Peter Dizikes MIT In a new book, Amy Moran-Thomas examines how diabetes is reaching epidemic levels in countries across the world. In Belize, where diabetes is rampant, patients need insulin every day to maintain proper…
Finding a killer electron hot spot in Earth’s…
JAXA and NASA satellite observations show where killer electrons are generated in the Van Allen radiation belts surrounding Earth. A collaboration between researchers in Japan, the USA, and Russia has found a hot spot in…
One-third of recent global methane increase comes from…
Concentrations of methane, a greenhouse gas about 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide, have risen steadily in Earth’s atmosphere since 2007. Although several potential explanations, including an increase in methane emissions from the tropics,…