05 May 2014: NASA’s Curiosity Rover has drilled into a slab of Martian sandstone from which portions of rock powder will be delivered into the rover’s internal instruments.

5 May 2014: Using satellite data, scientists are improving their understanding of the relationship between droughts and heatwaves in order to forecast hot spells better in the future.

30 April 2014: Europe’s latest Galileo navigation satellite has arrived at the Agency’s technical centre in the Netherlands for testing, as the previous two satellites are prepared for shipping to French Guiana for launch this summer.

04 April 2014: The ability of European citizens, policymakers and service providers to access key environmental data on a routine basis took a major step forward following the launch yesterday of ESA's Sentinel-1A satellite.