Cooking a comet, ingredients for life? – classroom demonstration video, VP06

This video, part of the ESA 'Teach with space' series, shows an experiment that can be…

Ariane 5 flight VA220 liftoff replay

On 16 October 2014, Ariane 5 flight VA220 lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana…

Docking the last Automated Transfer Vehicle

ESA’s fifth and final Automated Transfer Vehicle, Georges Lemaître, arrived at the International Space Station on…

Delivering oxygen to the Space Station

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is responsible for unloading all the cargo from ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle…

Bathed in green

During the evening of 8 October 2014, ESA’s observatory on the island of Tenerife, Spain, lit…

Lake County, Oregon

This image from Sentinel-1A was acquired over the Lake County in the US state of Oregon…

Philae’s primary landing site – mosaic

Close-up of the region containing Philae’s primary landing site J, which is located on the ‘head’…

What does Philae do during descent?

Infographic to summarise the measurements carried out by Rosetta’s lander, Philae, during its seven-hour descent to…

Rosetta: close orbits to lander deployment

Animation showing Rosetta’s orbit in the lead up to, during and after lander separation. The animation…

Sending cells to space

Yassen Abbas, a young graduate trainee at ESA’s Life, Physical Science and Life Support Laboratory, explains…