“I dream of reaching the stars” by Shreyas from India is the winning essay of our Stargazer competition.…
Do you want to send your art into space on the new Cheops satellite? ESA and its mission…
If you have a name you’d like to send to space, now is your chance! Astronaut Thomas Pesquet…
How many constellations do you recognise? Which is our star? Can you reach another star in a spaceship?…
Little more than fifty years ago the first human went to space. Since then our adventures beyond the…
When you think of satellites, you might think of space telescopes like Hubble. But many satellites are actually…
It’s been hundreds of years since Christopher Columbus sailed the Earth discovering new worlds — but don’t let…
Earlier this week, astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Butch Wilmore captured the Dragon spacecraft as it arrived at the…
In 2015, Tim Peake will become the first British astronaut to board the International Space Station. His six-month…
Early Monday morning, six hours after a sky-lighting launch, a spacecraft docked safely on the International Space Station…
This Sunday three astronauts will blast off to the International Space Station to begin a five-month mission in…
Touchdown! For the first time in human history we have landed a spacecraft on the surface of a…
Millions of people around the world have had laser surgery to correct their eyesight, but did you know…
On 23 November, ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti will lift off to the International Space Station and spend almost…
On 20 November 1998 one of humanity’s greatest dreams came true – the first module of the International…
Sky watchers will be in for a treat in mid-August, when the annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its…
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst has now spent a week in space on the International Space Station. As he…
A Soyuz spacecraft launched last night from Baikonur, Kazakhstan docked with the ISS this morning, delivering ESA astronaut…
Last night, Sentinel 1 lifted off on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The…
ESA astronaut Timothy Peake will be heading to the International Space Station next year and he needs your…
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet has been assigned to a long-duration mission on the International Space Station in 2016.…
Next year, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will be visiting the International Space Station. He is presently training hard,…
The first of ESA’s new family of Earth-watching Sentinel satellites has been shipped to Europe’s Kourou spaceport in…
Europe is confidently looking forward to having the world’s first non-military satellite navigation system, now that the first…
We are pleased to announce that the winner of our Gaia competition is Goncalo from Portugal! Congratulations on…
Thirty years ago today, on 28 November 1983, the first European-built Spacelab was launched into space on Space…
ESA’s three-satellite Swarm constellation was launched today at 12:02 GMT by a Rockot launcher in Northern Russia. For…
