ESA chooses instruments for its Jupiter icy moons explorer 21 February 2013 The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, JUICE, will carry a total of 11 scientific experiments to study the gas giant planet and its large ocean-bearing moons, ESA announced today. Read more

NASA joins ESA's 'dark Universe' mission 24 January 2013 NASA has officially joined ESA's Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the mysterious natures of dark matter and dark energy. Read more

ESA Science Programme's new small satellite will study super-Earths 19 October 2012 PR 35 2012 - Studying planets around other stars will be the focus of the new small Science Programme mission, Cheops, ESA announced today. Its launch is expected in 2017. Read more

Call for White Papers for the definition of the L2 and L3 missions in the ESA Science Programme 05 March 2013 This Call, open to the broad scientific community, solicits White Papers to propose science themes and associated questions to be addressed by ESA's next two large (L-class) missions, L2 and L3. The submission deadline for White Papers is 24 May 2013, 12:00 CEST (noon). Read more