Sky watchers will be in for a treat this week, when the annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its…
Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System; it’s more than 1000 times bigger than Earth! Yet…
The European Space Agency is very happy to announce that the adventure will continue for the Rosetta spacecraft…
Rosetta’s lander Philae has woken up on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasmenko after seven months in hibernation! Signals from Philae were…
It’s incredible to think that despite how empty the clear blue sky looks on a sunny day, there…
After spending 200 days in space, ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is coming back to Earth on 11 June.…
“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…
In 1957, Sputnik became the first artificial satellite to successfully reach space. Since then, thousands of satellites have…
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…
Join Paxi on a journey through our Solar System, from the rocky inner planets close to the Sun,…
Earlier this week, astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Butch Wilmore captured the Dragon spacecraft as it arrived at the…
We are pleased to announce that the winners of our Sun competition are children between the ages of…
In 2015, Tim Peake will become the first British astronaut to board the International Space Station. His six-month…
