Earth from space: Queensland floods

In this week's edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us…

Testing satellite marker designs

Akin to landing lights for aircraft, ESA is developing infrared and phosphorescent markers for satellites, to…

Bedbound commander

What are you like at docking a virtual spacecraft with a space station? And, more importantly,…

Comet cat

From a distance of five million kilometres to within 20 metres, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft captured images…

Comet or cluster?

Most globular clusters are almost perfectly spherical collections of stars — but Messier 62 breaks the mould. The 12-billion-year-old cluster…

Easter Island

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over one of the most remote islands in the world:…

Earth from space: Easter Island

In this week's edition of the Earth from Space programme, Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over one of…

Southern Crab Nebula

This incredible image of the hourglass-shaped Southern Crab Nebula was taken to mark the NASA/ESA Hubble…

Southern Crab Nebula

This incredible image of the hourglass-shaped Southern Crab Nebula was taken to mark the NASA/ESA Hubble…

Luca Parmitano training for second mission

This Summer ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will fly to the International Space Station from the Baikonur…