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ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet had a call with the French President Emmanuel Macron on 4 November 2021 from the International Space Station. The call came at the end of Thomas’s second mission to space called Alpha.

Arguably, humankind has never been more aware of the jeopardy we and the planet face because of climate change. As world leaders at COP26 work to accelerate action towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions to keep the goal of 1.5°C temperature rise within reach, we bring you a new easy-to-use guide on what ESA is doing to understand and monitor climate change from space – data that are essential for policy-makers.

A Long March 2C rocket lifts off with two Yaogan 32 Chinese military satellites. Credit: CASC

China launched two classified military satellites Wednesday on top of a Long March 2C rocket augmented by a restartable upper stage.

Learn about the moon phases and when you can see them.

This Mechanical Engineering Robotic Arms set is a great STEM set and is 17% off on Amazon.

"We can only do this together," says space station commander as he prepares to wrap up another stay in orbit.

Scientists aren't exactly sure how it formed.

The Earth and everything on it face an extinction-level event from some kind of alien that's been living on the moon.

Massive stars can produce twice as much carbon when they have a close binary companion, according to a new study. The result is a small but important step in understanding the cosmic origin of elements.

It's been a busy few days for our sun, which has produced three of the outbursts that scientists call coronal mass ejections since Monday (Nov. 1).

While NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has faced countless obstacles and delays in its more than decade in the making, the observatory's most difficult days lie ahead in the coming months.

Walmart have knocked 20% off this Lego Star Wars advent calendar so you can get it in time for December.

We look at the best camera backpacks on the market right now and pick our favorites from brands like LowePro, Vanguard and Peak Design.

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A collection of the best timelapse videos made during ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s second mission to the International Space Station, “Alpha” in 2021. The camera is setup to take pictures at intervals of two a second, and the pictures are then edited into this video that plays at 25 pictures a second. Most videos around 12 times faster than real speed.

Satellites will play a key role in helping the world slash its methane emissions in line with the global pledge introduced by the U.S. President Joe Biden at the COP26 climate change conference.

There are a few good theories for a multiverse — an infinite number of parallel universes besides our own.

In the first 20 years of reaching the atmosphere, methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide. Reducing emissions of this extremely potent gas is, therefore, one of the fastest ways of slowing the rate of global warming, at least in the short term – and at COP26, more than 100 countries have just signed up to the Global Methane Pledge, which aims to limit emissions by 30% compared with 2020 levels.

Honda began working on the rocket in late 2019 and already has some serious hardware to show for it — a brand-new engine.

Asteroid 2021 UA1, a space rock about the size of a refrigerator, made a surprise appearance when it recently flew past Earth.