November 12, 2025, very early in the morning. Colleagues from the STCE, the Belgian Space Weather Centre, admired the northern lights from their terrace in Brussels and are amazed by the show of colours. After... Read more...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025, marked the beginning of a 3-day workshop gathering international members from the BELA and MORE experiments onboard the BepiColombo mission to Mercury. The joint ESA and JAXA mission was launched in 2018... Read more...
On 26 September 2025, come to the free WiseNight festival at the Planetarium of the Royal Observatory of Belgium. WiseNight is a fun and inclusive event that aims to bring science and scientists in interactive... Read more...
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has revealed new details in the core of the Butterfly Nebula, NGC 6302. From the dense, dusty torus that surrounds the star hidden at the centre of the nebula... Read more...
The 11th Science Working Team meeting of the ESA Proba-3 mission recently took place at Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB). The world’s top experts on coronagraphy, the technique to observe the solar corona by blocking... Read more...
New findings from the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft reveal that even the tiniest bursts of activity from the Sun may behave like their larger counterparts. The Sun constantly produces tiny flashes of extreme ultraviolet... Read more...
On Saturday 28 June 2025, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., twelve female researchers from all over Belgium will be sharing their passion and knowledge in a fun and accessible way at the Carrefour de... Read more...
This is the image of the duo-satellite Proba-3 making solar eclipses, just released by the European Space Agency, ESA. The image was taken by the instrument ASPIICS on Proba-3. The raw image, once transmitted to... Read more...
Thanks to a push from planet Venus earlier this year, the orbit of the Solar Orbiter spacecraft was tilted. A century ago mankind raced to explore the poles of the Earth, now Solar Orbiter made... Read more...
This Operational Directorate (OD1) contributes to the elaboration of reference systems and timescales, integrates Belgium in the international reference frames, and studies the interior, rotation, dynamics, and crustal deformation of the Earth and other terrestrial planets and moons of our solar system. Read more...
The main mission of this Operational Directorate (OD2) is studying seismic activity, its causes and its consequences in western Europe. In support of this scientific research and to provide the authorities, the media and the public with relevant information about the seismic activity in real time in our region, this operational direction develops and maintains a network of seismic monitoring in Belgium. Read more...
This Operational Directorate (OD3) conducts scientific research in astronomy, especially in the field of stellar physics and the study of objects of the solar system. Research themes include astrometry, stellar evolution and asteroseismologie. Read more...
This Operational Directorate (OD4) studies the outer layers and the atmosphere of the Sun, with a particular focus on solar activity and the influence it exerts on the Earth and its space environment (space weather). On the ground, the observations are obtained using the Uccle Solar Equatorial Table (USET). Read more...
