Life on the International Space Station (ISS) is rather hectic right now for the crew – ESA astronaut…
Every now and again our Milky Way galaxy is lit up by a huge explosion. Known as a…
The first communications satellite was the Moon. US Army engineers bounced signals off the Moon in 1951. They…
The absence of gravity means that astronauts grow several centimetres during a space mission. This is because the…
Have you ever thought about going on a voyage around the world? This is what ESA astronaut Thomas…
Saturn’s moon Titan is one of the largest and most fascinating satellites in the Solar System. Unfortunately, its…
The world’s heaviest communications satellite was placed into orbit on 11 August 2005 by Europe’s Ariane 5. The…
The next important step in Europe’s human spaceflight programme began on 4 July when the 115th space shuttle…
400 km above our heads, travelling at 7.7 km per second, is the largest object ever put in…
Most science fiction stories have aliens with two eyes, two arms and two legs. However, life can evolve…
The tallest astronaut to fly in space was American Jim Wetherbee, who was 1.93 m (6 feet 4…
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to land on an alien world more than 1.2…
V počastitev dneva Evrope vam ESA ponuja priložnost, da osvojite plakat, na katerem je Evropa upodobljena tako, kot jo vidi…
Znanstveniki že desetletja vedo za številna ogromna jezera, ki se skrivajo pod zamrznjenimi prostranstvi Antarktike. Vendar pa…
Venus, the second planet from the Sun, is about to receive its first European visitor. On 11 April,…
Poplave so pogostejše in bolj razširjene kot katera koli druga naravna nesreča. V zadnjem desetletju so poplave prizadele…
Kljub svojemu imenu je Grenlandija skoraj v celoti prekrita z ogromno ledeno ploščo. Vendar pa podatki iz več…
Amateur radio buffs and students around the world are getting ready to tune in to signals from one…
Venus is the second planet from the Sun, so it is always fairly close to the Sun in…
Neptune was discovered in 1846 by Johann Galle, an astronomer at the Berlin Observatory. Galle knew where to…
Pluto was discovered in 1930 by 24 year-old Clyde Tombaugh, who was using a special machine to compare…
Mercury is the first planet from the Sun. It is not very easy to observe since it is…
Modern telescopes have revealed hundreds of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune, in a region known as…
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1781. Uranus lies…
Beyond the asteroid belt is Jupiter, the fifth planet from the Sun. Everything about Jupiter is large. It…
All of the planets travel around the Sun in a counter-clockwise direction – as seen from above Earth’s…
The Solar System is made up of the Sun and all of the smaller objects that move around…
On 14 January 2005 ESA’s Huygens probe made an historic landing on the surface of Saturn’s giant satellite,…
The surface of Mars is now as dry as a desert, but new results from ESA’s Mars Express…
