Open Day visitors

Visitors inspect the Columbus module mockup in ESTEC's Erasmus building during ESA's Open Day in the…

Laurent Pambaguian: Rethinking how space missions are made

Laurent Pambaguian, a Materials Technology Engineer at ESA, explains how developments in the terrestrial industrial landscape…

Marco Sabbadini: Smart skin for flat antennas

A revolutionary new type of flat antenna is on its way to space, explains Marco Sabbadini,…

Parachute for Mars

A full-size model of the ExoMars entry, descent and landing module, Schiaparelli, with its parachute deployed…

Leopold Summerer: Introducing Galileo to Einstein

Leopold Summerer, head of ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team, explains how their work exploring the future of…

European Astro Pi Challenge – Code your experiment

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet has the pleasure to announce a new challenge for students 16 years…

Magnetic signal from ocean tides

The magnetic signature from ocean tides (every 12.42 hours) thanks to two years of data from…

Rosetta’s last image

UPDATED Rosetta's last image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken with the OSIRIS wide-angle camera shortly before impact,…

Comet from 1.2 km – narrow-angle camera

Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera captured this image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at 10:14 GMT from an altitude…

Comet landing site

Sequence of images captured by Rosetta during its descent to the surface of Comet 67P/C-G on…