Sentinel-2A: Ready to launch

Sentinel-2A will soon be launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on top of a Vega…

Rhymes from space: Samantha reads Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

After previous readings in Italian and Russian, ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti was keen to do a…

Rhymes from space: Samantha reads Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

After previous readings in Italian and Russian, ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti was keen to do a…

Comet on 25 April 2015 – Osiris

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 25 April 2015 from a distance of approximately 93 kilometres, seen through the…

Soyuz TMA-15M

Since docking with the International Space Station on 24 November 2014, Soyuz TMA-15M has been waiting…

Sentinel-2A during its installation on its payload launcher adapter

Sentinel-2A being installed on its payload launcher adapter, on 6 June 2015 at Europe's Spaceport in…

Sentinel-2A installed on its payload launcher adapter

Sentinel-2A installed on its payload launcher adapter, on 6 June 2015 at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou,…

Stars forming in the Taurus Molecular Cloud

The intricate jumble depicted in this image from ESA’s Herschel space observatory shows the distribution of…

Great Barrier Reef, Australia

This satellite image, acquired by the Landsat-8 satellite on 23 August 2013, takes us off the…

Where do astronauts sleep?

Join ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti for a guided tour of the International Space Station’s crew quarters…