Draco: atmospheric reentry from the inside

Over the nearly 70 years of spaceflight, about 10 000 intact satellites and rocket bodies have…

ESA – Galileo satellite encapsulation

Two Galileo satellites being placed inside the protective ‘nose cone’ of Ariane 6 (known as the…

XMM-Newton sees comet 3I/ATLAS in X-ray light

The European Space Agency’s X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 3 December for…

ESA – Pablo Álvarez Fernández | Spacesuits, Survival & Spacewalk Dreams

Step inside astronaut training with ESA astronaut Pablo Álvarez Fernández as he shares his training journey from Cologne in Germany to Houston in the US.…

ESA – Pablo Álvarez Fernández | Spacesuits, Survival & Spacewalk Dreams

Step inside astronaut training with ESA astronaut Pablo Álvarez Fernández as he shares his training journey from Cologne in Germany to Houston in the US.…

Earth from Space: Pariacaca Mountain Range, Peru

Following International Mountain Day, which creates awareness of the importance of mountain environments around the world,…

Massive stars make their mark

This glittering blue galaxy and subject of today’s ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week is a blue compact dwarf galaxy called…

The journey of Juice – episode 2

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is on an epic eight-year journey to Jupiter. It left…

8 640 000 seconds to Mars

Imagine living in a small, sealed habitat for 100 days with five other people, cut off…

Shine bright like a satellite

A sunlight lamp illuminates a satellite model covered in golden thermal insulation. A cup-shaped thruster extends from…