Mutant soybeans planted as part of a campaign to support the development of ESA’s FLEX mission…
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Location of the outburst
On 19 February 2016 Rosetta’s instruments detected an outburst event from Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The source was…
Andreas Mogensen using VR in Orbital Robotics Lab
Danish ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen during a summer visit to ESTEC’s Orbital Robotics Laboratory, experiencing weightless…
The real thing
The European Service Module that will power NASA’s Orion spacecraft to the Moon and beyond is…
Comet on 18 August 2016 – OSIRIS narrow-angle camera
OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image taken on 18 August 2016, when Rosetta was 6.1 km from the…
Planck’s flame-filled view of the Polaris Flare
This image from ESA’s Planck satellite appears to show something quite ethereal and fantastical: a sprite-like…
Stellar shrapnel
Several thousand years ago, a star some 160 000 light-years away from us exploded, scattering stellar…
Comet on 15 August 2016 – OSIRIS narrow-angle camera
OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image taken on 15 August 2016, when Rosetta was 6.7 km from the…
Gates of ESTEC
The front gates of ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands, set to be thrown open to…
Space science: everything starts here
How did it all begin? What are the origins of our planet? To understand our place…