Today, most of our goods are carried by lorries loaded with giant containers. However, although the modern freight…
Six ‘astronauts’ have returned to the real world after spending 105 days on a simulated mission to Mars.…
The winners of the competition are: Pasqual Ortega Hernández, Rueben Willis, Savitri Thurairatnam, Beatriz Gómez Sala, Rafael y…
One of the longest space missions ever made came to an end on 30 June 2009 when the…
The most powerful infrared space observatory ever built has opened its electronic eyes for the first time and…
Following the success of an earlier competition to name the OasISS mission, ESA is now asking Europeans to…
ESA astronaut Frank De Winne is heading to the International Space Station at the start of his six-month…
With the International Space Station (ISS) now almost complete, Europe’s human spaceflight programme is looking to the future.…
Excitement is building around the world as the clock counts down to the launch of two powerful new…
Two of the most ambitious missions ever attempted to unveil the secrets of the darkest, coldest and oldest…
There’s no shower on the ISS. Do you know how astronauts manage to keep themselves clean? There’s no…
Until now, as they race to the scene of a blaze or accident, firefighters have known little about…
On 31 March 2009, six people set off for Mars …. well almost. The crew is actually taking…
Astronomers around the world are eagerly awaiting the launch of an Ariane 5 rocket carrying two groundbreaking ESA…
This afternoon, the GOCE satellite developed by ESA was launched into a near-Sun-synchronous, low Earth orbit by a…
An advanced ‘electronic nose’ system, first developed to monitor the air quality inside space stations, is now being…
Many young people have great ideas about experiments they’d like to send into space. Unfortunately, flying experiments on…
The Solar System contains eight planets orbiting our local star, the Sun. But did you know that there…
Many cars are now being fitted with satellite navigation devices, which tell the driver how to get from…
Few events are as dangerous as large-scale fires. Apart from the threat to their lives from choking smoke,…
