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German research institutes are pleased with the first test images Euclid, ESA's newest space telescope with strong German participation, has delivered its first test images a few weeks after the rocket launch.

Researchers have tested the software of three satellites. And they found many standard security mechanisms missing. Thousands of satellites are currently orbiting the Earth, and there will be many more in the future. Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken have assessed the security of these systems from an IT perspective.

Just like us, using mobile phones, satellites also communicate with each other and with receiving stations on Earth using radio waves.

Cooperation with science organisations will maximise the benefits to society from the data EUMETSAT satellites produce EUMETSAT will establish cooperation agreements with national research and develop

Instrument is a first for Europe and could significantly benefit the prediction of severe storms The first ever satellite instrument continuously detecting lightning over Europe and Africa has been sw

German research institutes participating at the forefront of dark matter and dark energy research The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope was launched into space today at 17:11 CEST on a Falcon 9 rocket from the U.S. space company SpaceX.

Phosphorus is one of the building blocks of life and has never been discovered beyond Earth. Scientists from Germany, Japan and the USA have now proven that phosphorus salts can be found in an ocean under the ice of Saturn's moon Enceladus and have published their findings in the journal Nature. Among them is Bernd Abel from the Institute of Technical Chemistry at the University of Leipzig.

When the German communications satellite Heinrich-Hertz is launched into space on June 16, it will also have experiments from the Technische Universität Ilmenau on board.

Twenty-year anniversary of the Mars Express: Planetary researchers at Freie Universität Berlin publish color mosaic of Mars with never before seen details Twenty years ago to the day, the European space probe Mars Express began its journey to Earth's "red" neighbor.

Argelander Institute, Matter Transdisciplinary Research Area and enaCom Transfer Center all involved The "MS Wissenschaft" is setting sail from Berlin, and the University of Bonn is among those on board.

The first image from Europe's newest weather satellite, released today, reveals conditions over Europe, Africa and the Atlantic with an extraordinary level of detail.

With the research project "Digital Astronaut - Outboard Mission in Space", the TU Ilmenau has won the university competition "Science Year 2023 - Our Universe".

Harald Hiesinger talks about the European Space Agency's -PANGAEA- training programme and about his job as a course instructor In a few years' time, man wants to return to the Moon.

Philosopher of science Ulrich Krohs and physicist Kai Schmitz talk about the universe Science Year 2023 is devoting itself to the subject of "Our Universe".

Michaela Benthaus at "AstroAccess" in Houston Michaela Benthaus had dreamed of becoming an astronaut since she was a young girl.

Using artificial intelligence methods to prevent collisions of nanosatellites in orbit: This is the aim of a new project in which students are leading the pen.

New-generation satellite carries more advanced instruments for monitoring and forecasting severe weather events Tonight's launch of a highly advanced meteorological satellite from, Kourou, French Guia

EUMETSAT Council approves funding for preparatory activities for innovative polar-orbiting satellite systems EUMETSAT, Europe's meteorological satellite agency, will examine the expansion of its low-Earth-orbiting fleet with new, complementary satellite systems.

Five ERC Starting Grants, highly endowed grants of the European Research Council (ERC), have been allocated to Ruperto Carola in the latest approval round.

IceCube telescope: High-energy neutrinos discovered in galaxy NGC 1068 For over ten years the IceCube Observatory in the Antarctic has been monitoring the light traces of extragalactic neutrinos.

What did the Universe look like more than 12 billion years ago when the first galaxies were forming? To tackle this early cosmic epoch a new junior research group started work this October at Heidelberg University's Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Darmstadt, 19 October - "Current changes to the climate are posing a threat to the Earth.

The world's longest-serving meteorological satellite in geostationary orbit, EUMETSAT's Meteosat-8, has been moved to the "graveyard orbit" after 20 years of life-saving service.

What tasks can nanosatellites perform around the moon or even further away from Earth? A new study at the University of Würzburg aims to clarify this.

With progressing nuclear fusion in the center of a star, brightness, size, and color also change. Astrophysicists can derive from such properties important information on age and mass of a star.

Drill cores in core boxes. A great deal of information can be obtained from the cores, for example about the Moon's orbit, tides, volcanic activity, UV radiation, meteorite impacts, the temperature of the oceans and the atmosphere, as well as the intensity of chemical weathering.

Tobias Buck links machine learning with computer simulations to gain new insights into the origin of galaxies A new research group in the field of computational astrophysics is starting its work at Heidelberg University in August 2022.

The first science image released by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was of a gravitational lens, in particular the galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.