https://phys.org/ en-us Latest news from UK Space Agency The ExoFiT Mars rover testing team will use a new model called 'Charlie' to test hardware, software and to practise science operations for the future European Space Agency (ESA) ExoMars rover, which will look for life on Mars in 2021. https://phys.org/news/2018-10-mars-rover-miles.html Space Exploration Mon, 29 Oct 2018 09:34:05 EDT news460024436 A UK-built satellite which will be part of Europe's world-leading environmental monitoring programme – Copernicus – is ready for launch. https://phys.org/news/2017-07-sentinel-precursor-satellite-ready.html Space Exploration Fri, 21 Jul 2017 10:10:01 EDT news419847690 Planned for launch by 2024, the planet hunting mission will see strong involvement from several UK institutes, with Professor Don Pollacco from the University of Warwick providing UK scientific leadership for the European consortium. https://phys.org/news/2014-03-uk-europe-plato-planet-hunting-mission.html Space Exploration Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:30:01 EDT news313755089 (Phys.org) —Europe's billion-star surveyor Gaia is slowly being brought into focus. https://phys.org/news/2014-02-gaia-focus.html Astronomy Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:52:34 EST news310920739 Europe's 'dark Universe' mission Euclid is ready for construction after the European Space Agency today announced Thales as prime contractor. https://phys.org/news/2013-07-piece-puzzle-esa-dark-universe.html Astronomy Tue, 09 Jul 2013 11:01:58 EDT news292586466 Metop-B, the European polar orbiting weather satellite, designed and manufactured by Astrium, is now ready to launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. https://phys.org/news/2012-09-metop-b-weather-satellite-ready.html Space Exploration Fri, 07 Sep 2012 08:30:03 EDT news266223904 Whilst the most powerful earthquake since records began hit Japan in 2011, triggering a massive tsunami which devastated much of the country, space scientists involved in one of the 'brightest' international Sun missions continued working tirelessly at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Sagamihara, Japan, to capture new data from our turbulent star. https://phys.org/news/2012-08-hinode-scientists-stellar-effort-sun.html Space Exploration Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:55:45 EDT news264156920 Astronomers, using the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory, have shown that the number of stars that form during the early lives of galaxies may be influenced by the massive black holes at their hearts. This helps explain the link between the size of the central bulges of galaxies and the mass of their central black holes. https://phys.org/news/2012-05-massive-black-holes-halt-star.html Astronomy Wed, 09 May 2012 17:12:18 EDT news255802281