Galaxy NGC 6503

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows galaxy NGC 6503. The galaxy, which lies 30 000…

Sweden signs up for Sentinel data

Volker Liebig, ESA’s Director of Earth Observation Programmes (left) and Olle Norberg, Director General of the Swedish National…

Stockholm, Sweden

Stockholm appears as a cluster of bright yellow radar reflections in the lower section of this…

Comet on 1 June 2015 – NavCam

This single frame Rosetta navigation camera image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken on 1 June 2015…

Encapsulation begins

Sentinel-2A being encapsulated within the half-shells of the Vega rocket fairing, on 6 June 2015 at…

Sentinel-2A: Ready to launch

Sentinel-2A will soon be launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on top of a Vega…

Rhymes from space: Samantha reads Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

After previous readings in Italian and Russian, ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti was keen to do a…

Rhymes from space: Samantha reads Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

After previous readings in Italian and Russian, ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti was keen to do a…

Comet on 25 April 2015 – Osiris

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 25 April 2015 from a distance of approximately 93 kilometres, seen through the…

Soyuz TMA-15M

Since docking with the International Space Station on 24 November 2014, Soyuz TMA-15M has been waiting…