After travelling for 10 long years, covering over half the length of the Solar System and looping around…
Alexander Gerst will be launched to the International Space Station on 28 May on his ‘Blue Dot’ mission.…
The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the driest places inhabited by humans. Until fairly recently, every…
On 28 May, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst will be launched to the International Space Station together with NASA…
Iriss is the name of Andreas Mogensen’s 10-day mission to the ISS next year. Proposed by Filippo Magni…
Sentinel 1 is scheduled for launch on 3 April. Thanks to a radar instrument that can see through…
The clock is ticking… in 100 days ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst will be launched to the International Space…
It was a fairy-tale ending to an important chapter in the story of the Rosetta space mission as…
Last year, schoolchildren were invited to dig up the Earth in search of creepy-crawlies such as beetles, woodlice…
Have you ever suffered from jetlag after flying across many different time zones? Such long distance journeys often…
ESA’s Gaia mission blasted off this morning on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana,…
Since its launch in April 2010, ESA’s CryoSat spacecraft has been flying over the North and South Poles…
Although ESA’s GOCE satellite burned up during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere a few weeks ago, this unique mission…
After more than 4 years of scanning the sky to look back to the beginning of time, the…
ESA satellites have been studying Earth since the 1970s. The most important of these was Envisat, the largest…
On 14 May 2009, two of the most sensitive space observatories ever built were launched from Kourou in…
Rosetta, ESA’s comet-chasing mission, will wake up from a deep-space hibernation at 10:00 GMT on 20 January! Launched…
ESA astronauts Andreas Mogensen and Thomas Pesquet recently returned from Florida after taking part in Seatest – a…
ESA has been observing Earth from space ever since the launch of its first Meteosat weather satellite in…
Based on over 30 years of experience in flying Earth observation satellites, ESA is developing five new types…
Each year, ESA invites astronauts from different countries to take part in the two-week CAVES project. This year,…
During an amateur radio call between the International Space Station and children of the Bambino Gesu’ Hospital in…
Thanks to this stunning colour movie from ESA’s Mars Express, you can see what it would be like…
The International Space Station relies on regular deliveries of experiment equipment and spare parts, as well as food,…
ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has just celebrated ten years in space, but Europe is already getting ready for…
ESA’s ATV-4, Albert Einstein, completed a flawless rendezvous with the International Space Station on 15 June when it…
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet waves as he descends to a mockup of the ISS at NASA’s Laboratory in…
A team of scientists are spending six months in the most remote spot on Earth, to study the…
The International Space Station is closer than you might think … it circles the Earth only 400 km…
How much should you train to be fit for space? ESA astronaut André Kuipers will answer this and…
