ESA outlines Earth research plans
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Understanding our impact The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched an extension of its Living Planet research programme dedicated to understanding the impact human activity has on our planet.â¦
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Industrial groups in Europe are about to look in detail at ideas for a new launch system to put humans in space.
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The European Space Agency(ESA) says it has found concentrations of water vapour and the gas methane in the same places on Mars, which strengthen speculation that the Red Planet could be a haven for microbial life.
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ESA and NASA are mounting a joint campaign to observe Jupiter over the next few weeks with two different spacecraft.
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Description: We check in with the progress of search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A paper published this week in the journal Nature argues that for sending lots of data over long distances, it&#39;s hard
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Official pens seeing plenty of action It's all go this week for the European Space Agency, ESA. The agency has ordered the first satellites for its Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme, and finalised details of how it will work with NASA on two massive projects: the James Webb Space Telescope and the LISA Pathfinder mission.â¦
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Description: Scientists exploring Mars via the rover &#39;Opportunity&#39; published 11 papers detailing the progress of the research being done in an area called Meridiani Planum.
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A draft UN treaty to tackle any future giant asteroids heading for Earth is to be drawn up this year.
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Keeping an eye on Apophis UK boffins have come up with a plan to track the potentially planet-busting asteroid Apophis, according to a report on the BBC News website. The 300m-wide chunk of space debris is expected to make a close fly-by of Earth in 2029. Initial reports suggested it might actually collide with us, but more refined calculations allayed those fears.â¦
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The European Space Agency says the launch of MetOp-A, the first in a new European series of three meteorological satellites, will be Oct. 7.
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A new tool based on satellite data shows trends in the way Europeans use our landscape.
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The European Commission will set out proposals to get the Galileo satellite navigation system back on track.
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Scientists discuss their preferred targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.
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A French satellite designed to hunt out  new planets has started work after a series of successful  tests, the European Space Agency said on Friday.
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More than 60 nations launch the broadest scientific investigation yet of the Arctic and Antarctic on Thursday to chart polar regions on the front lines of global warming.
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(InfoWorld) - A new strategy for funding technology research in the European Union calls for the E.U. to pool its vast resources with those from private industry and individual member states in a public-private partnership. Under the plan announced Tuesday, technology companies and research institutes will be able to marry their own research and development (R&D) investments with additional funds from the member states and the E.U. through new Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs). With the JTIs, which can be established as independent legal entities and accept funding from any source, the E.U. hopes to unite -- and focus -- the region's widely fragmented R&D efforts and make more efficient use of research funding. The first JTI, called Artemis, will focus on embedded systems, an area signaled by European ministers as being of strategic importance for Europe's economy. European industry's own research investment in this area is estimated at around â¬15 billion ($19 billion) to â¬20 billion per year, according to the E.U. Artemis is expected to be operational by 2008, and will have a budget of â¬3 billion over seven years, more than half of it from industry. Several European companies have expressed interested in joining the initiative, including car marker DaimlerChrysler, mobile phone manufacturer Nokia and consumer electronics manufacturer Koninklijke Philips Electronics. Another JTI in the pipeline is Eniac, which will focus on nanoelectronics. The JTIs will benefit from the â¬9 billion the E.U. has approved for its ICT (information and communications technologies) budget, to run until 2013. The money will go to fundamental and applied R&D projects in areas where Europe has competitive advantages and established strengths, such as communications, electronics, photonics and software systems. "With the â¬9 billion, we're challenging member states, industry and academia to join us in the fight for a more competitive Europe," said European Commission for Information Society and Media Viviane Reding in a statement. "But we don't just need more research; we need better focussed research, too."
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Science & environment: An armada of robot submarines and marine sensors are to be deployed across the Atlantic