ESA’s three-satellite Swarm constellation was launched today at 12:02 GMT by a Rockot launcher in Northern Russia. For…
The International Space Station celebrates its birthday today, 15 years after the first module was launched in 1998.…
We are pleased to announce that the winners of our Stars competition are students from Surbiton High Boys’…
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, Russian commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg returned to Earth today at…
During the night of 10 November, after almost six months in space, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will return…
On 2 November, ESA’s ATV-4 Albert Einstein completed its five-month mission to the ISS by reentering the atmosphere…
There is an invisible magnetic field all around us. Although we don’t normally notice it, the Earth’s magnetic…
ESA’s supply ferry, ATV Albert Einstein, has served the International Space Station faithfully since it was launched in…
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…
The most powerful star mapper ever built will be launched from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana on 19…
ESA astronauts Andreas Mogensen and Thomas Pesquet recently returned from Florida after taking part in Seatest – a…
Would you like to see your own space artwork on the ESA Kids site? Here’s your chance! Every…
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is going to the International Space Station for six months on 28 May 2014.…
After more than four years in orbit, ESA’s GOCE mission is nearing its end. In mid-October, the satellite…
Next week sees the start of ESA’s underground training course for astronauts. Six new and experienced astronauts from…
ESA’s Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen will be launched on a Soyuz spacecraft in September 2015 to the International…
More than 1600 scientists will be meeting in Edinburgh in September to talk about the discoveries they have…
