Within a few weeks, ESA will invite the scientific community to propose the first missions for Cosmic Vision 2015-2025. The first medium-class mission should be launched in the 2016-2017 timeframe at ...

ESA’s ‘Cosmic Vision 2015-2025’ workshop, held at UNESCO in Paris on 15-16 September 2004, showed that Europe is richer than ever in ideas for what should be done in space science in the coming years.

Today, at its 105th meeting, ESA’s Science Programme Committee (SPC) has made important decisions concerning the Cosmic Vision programme. Due to the current financial exigencies and an outlook with no ...

The Euclid telescope had been gradually losing its vision as layers of water molecules accumulated on its mirrors. Euclid's mission team is testing a new way to de-ice the telescope's optics and ...