Mission planners at NASA and ESA’s Operations Centre (ESOC) have spent months debating the pros and…
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Soyuz selfie
In the Integration Building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 60 crewmembers Drew Morgan of…
Revealing the galactic bar
This colour chart shows the distribution of 150 million stars in the Milky Way probed using…
EDRS-C SpaceData Highway
Kourou, French Guiana, at Europe’s spaceport the EDRS-C satellite is being prepared for launch. Soon this…
Space harpoon testing
Testing the firing of an orbital harpoon intended to secure derelict satellites for disposal. In recent…
Galactic Cherry Blossom
The galaxy NGC 1156 resembles a delicate cherry blossom tree flowering in springtime in this Hubble Picture…
Earth from space: Mount Fuji
In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over the…
The Beyond Mission
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is about to be launched to the International Space Station from the…
Martian meteorite on Earth calibrates camera bound for Mars
Exhibit 0102.226 may look like just a rock, but this dark and patchy mass is actually…
3D printing skin
3D printing human tissue could help keep astronauts healthy all the way to Mars. An ESA…