The GRASS (GRAvimeter for Small Solar system bodies) instrument developed within the ESA Hera mission has recently undergone a successful environmental test campaign. The tests, which were performed in ESA’s Mechanical Systems Laboratory, showed that GRASS... Read more...
On May 2, 2023, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States of America announced the election of its new members. Dr Véronique Dehant, researcher at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, was elected... Read more...
Seismology has been used as a means of exploring the Earth’s interior for over a century. With the recent detection of Mars quakes by the seismometer of the InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy... Read more...
The platform “EPOS Data Portal”, the first and only pan-European research infrastructure for Solid Earth Sciences, is being presented at the EGU General Assembly 2023 (April 25, 2023). The EPOS Data Portal will allow scientists,... Read more...
From April 21 to June 25, 2023, the ‘Seas and Oceans’ exhibition will be held at Talk C.E.C., located in the former Demeuldre buildings in Brussels (Ixelles). Several researchers of the Royal Observatory of Belgium have... Read more...
On 13 April 2023 at 14:15 Belgian time, the ESA spacecraft JUICE will take off on board an Ariane 5 launcher from ESA’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guyana. After an 8-year-long journey, JUICE, an acronym... Read more...
After almost 9 years of existence, the Belgo-Indian Network for Astronomy and astrophysics (BINA) celebrated a new milestone with the inauguration of the ILMT (International Liquid Mirror Telescope), located at the Devasthal Observatory in the... Read more...
The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) telescope aboard the satellite Solar Orbiter was able to observe magnetic loops that shake back and forth very quickly. These vibrations are very small, but are ubiquitous and ever-present. Scientists... Read more...
Although their numbers are increasing, women are still under-represented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and their potential is not sufficiently recognised and taken into account. At the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ORB-KSB), initiatives... 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...
