Three… two… one… lift-off! Rockets are very important as they are the only means we have of transporting…
Space junk is a major problem. Some of it is very large, such as burnt-out rocket stages, dead…
There are many old satellites and broken pieces of them, called space debris, orbiting Earth that can harm…
In 2021, a powerful Ariane 5 rocket blasted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, carrying the largest,…
ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory is the biggest space observatory ever built in Europe. Weighing 3.8 tonnes at launch,…
The first test satellite in Europe’s Galileo navigation system was launched in December 2005, followed by a second…
Like living things, stars grow old and die. But heavyweight stars don’t fade away quietly. Instead, they go…
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is the most famous – and probably most successful – space observatory ever…
Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System and is remarkably different to our home planet, Earth.…
You may have heard about self-driving cars, but what about self-driving ships? This may sound like a science…
In 1957, Sputnik became the first artificial satellite to successfully reach space. Since then, thousands of satellites have…
The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the driest places inhabited by humans. Until fairly recently, every…
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…
Hydrogen, the lightest of all gases, is the most common element in the Universe. It is extremely easy…
On 12 October, a Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana with two Galileo…
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ESA has given the final go-ahead for Euclid, an exciting new mission to explore the dark side of…
The launch of Europe’s latest weather satellite is only months away. Two Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites are…
Today, we take it for granted that we can see live TV pictures of events such as the…
Fans of the 1960s TV series Star Trek were amazed when they saw Captain Kirk flip open a…
Research done onboard the International Space Station could help us keep hospital patients safe from infections. By using…
…and also on your tablet! The new ESA iPhone or iPad application, or ‘App’, can now deliver loads…
In astronomy, a satellite is an object that orbits (goes around) a planet. There are several hundred natural…
Although astronauts have to spend long periods in space, far from home, they are not alone. Teams of…
What if monitoring your heart rate was as easy as listening to music? Thanks to advances in space…
Mars Express met with Phobos on 3 March 2010, smoothly skimming past at just 67 km, the closest…
ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has been sending back remarkable images and other data since it reached the Red…
Car assembly has come a long way since the first production line was introduced in 1914. Today, much…
