Thomas Pesquet participates in a training session

European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet participates in an advanced Resistive Exercise Device (aRED) training session…

Landing site J in Rosetta’s NavCam – 21 September

Rosetta's navigation camera (NAVCAM) took this image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 21 September, from a distance…

Attica peninsula, Greece

Greece’s Attica peninsula, with the capital and largest city of Athens appearing bright white near the…

Comet on 24 September – NavCam

Four-image NAVCAM mosaic of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, using images taken on 24 September 2014 when Rosetta was…

Comet on 21 September – NavCam

Single frame (and cropped) NAVCAM image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 21 September 2014. Read more about…

Spacewalk training

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, Expedition 42/43 flight engineer,  dons a training version of her Extravehicular Mobility…

Dwarf galaxy DDO 68

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic oddity, dwarf galaxy DDO 68.…

GOCE senses changing gravity

The animation, based on measurements from ESA’s GOCE satellite and the NASA–German Grace mission, shows that…

Flash and splash

Observing large but perfectly shaped bubbles in weightlessness and recording them with a high-speed camera is…

Flash and splash

Observing large but perfectly shaped bubbles in weightlessness and recording them with a high-speed camera is…