The European Space Agency’s ACES mission could ultimately pave the way for a global network of atomic clocks that make these measurements far more accurate.

‘Potato Earth’ is the name being given to the new images of the globe as created by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) incredibly sleek GOCE satellite. The new map, known as a ‘geoid ...

Today’s geoid has been built using instruments that ... decades of dedicated work by scientists and engineers. It took ESA three decades to make a clock as small as ACES that is suitable for ...