Come see where space starts

ESA’s Open Day in the Netherlands takes place on Sunday 2 October. For more information and…

ESA’s Star Mapper visualisation

In 1989, ESA launched the first space mission dedicated to astrometry – the science of charting…

Spin Your Thesis! 2016 – PlanOx team

As part of ESA Education's Hands-on programmes, 4 students  from Italian Institute of Technology, Scuola Superiore…

Unpacking Galileo quartet

One of four new Galileo satellites is unpacked after arrival in the S1A payload preparation building…

The unusual cluster terzan

Peering through the thick dust clouds of the galactic bulge an international team of astronomers has…

Barents bloom

Although it may appear as a watercolour painting, this image is a natural-colour capture of a…

Earth from Space: Barents bloom

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. The one hundred…

Rosetta – advancing cometary science

Rosetta was the first mission to orbit a comet and the first mission to land on…

Signing the SciFi Car

When was the last time you autographed a car? Better yet, when was the last time…

ESA Space Solutions Centre Ireland

David Gibbons (Manager of ESA Space Solutions Centre Ireland), Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Minister for Jobs, Enterprise…