NASA Small Satellites to Demonstrate Swarm Communications and Autonomy

NASA’s two Nodes small satellites hitched a ride to the International Space Station on the fourth…

An artificial eclipse

The Sun experiences both calm and tempestuous periods of activity. At its most active, our star…

Launch of Orbital ATK Commercial Resupply Mission to the International Space Station

Orbital ATK's Cygnus cargo spacecraft launches aboard United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket on Sunday, Dec.…

Launch of Orbital ATK Commercial Resupply Mission to the International Space Station

Orbital ATK's Cygnus cargo spacecraft launches aboard United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket on Sunday, Dec.…

NASA Cargo Launches to Space Station Aboard Orbital ATK Resupply Mission

New hardware that will support dozens of NASA investigations and other science experiments from around the…

Testing camera-based navigation software for asteroid mission

A test campaign took place this autumn at the Madrid headquarters of Spain’s GMV Innovating Solutions…

Explaining gravitational waves

Paul McNamara, ESA LISA Pathfinder Project Scientist, explains gravitational waves. ESA’s LISA Pathfinder lifted off 3…

Essential Climate Variables: Sea level

Within ESA’s Climate Change Initiative, expert Anny Cazenave of LEGOS, France, explains the importance of sea…

ESA Euronews: The future of planet Earth

This special edition of Space comes from the COP21 climate summit in Paris. We're here to…

45th Space Wing supports NASA’s Orbital ATK CRS-4 launch

The 45th Space Wing supported NASA's  successful launch of Orbital ATK CRS-4, aboard a United Launch…