Venus is our mysterious neighbour, a strange world where the Sun rises in the west and…
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IXV drop-test model being moved
This drop-test model of ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) spaceplane will be one of the star…
Day and night
It takes 90 minutes for an astronaut on the International Space Station to circle Earth completely,…
Earth from Space: Athens on the radar
Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. Explore this…
Dragon-4
Despite running the International Space Station with just three crewmembers, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA…
IXV fit to fly
The Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle left the Netherlands from Schiphol airport on 23 September 2014 for the…
Rosetta Mission Status
Rosetta mission is ongoing. The landing site for Philae has been chosen. The adventure continues! But…
A cosmic hurricane
The giant planet Saturn is mostly a gigantic ball of rotating gas, completely unlike our solid…
Comet on 19 September 2014 – NavCam
Four-image NAVCAM mosaic of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, using images taken on 19 September 2014 when Rosetta was…
An interacting colossus
This picture, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), shows…