Comet on 23 July 2014 – NavCam zoom

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen by Rosetta’s navigation camera on 23 July 2014. The image is a…

Comet on 20 July 2014

Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko imaged on 20 July 2014 by Rosetta's OSIRIS narrow angle camera from a distance…

Alexander Soyuz check

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst floats through the International Space Station. As part of his Blue Dot…

Alexander Soyuz check

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst floats through the International Space Station. As part of his Blue Dot…

Hubble traces the halo of a galaxy more accurately than ever before

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have probed the extreme outskirts of the stunning elliptical…

Aausat4

The miniature Aausat satellite undergoes repeated temperature variations in a vacuum chamber, cooling the CubeSat to…

Aausat4

The miniature Aausat satellite undergoes repeated temperature variations in a vacuum chamber, cooling the CubeSat to…

Measuring ESA’s IXV spaceplane

ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, IXV, is tilted and turned along and around all three axes at…

#RosettaAreWeThereYet — Once upon a time…

...there was a spacecraft called Rosetta. Rosetta had been travelling in space for 10 years, towards a…

ESA astronaut Timothy Peake with UK Mission-X kids

ESA astronaut Tim Peake with UK participants of the Mission-X challenge during Futures Day at the…