Meet Olympus, a four-legged robot developed and built by Jørgen Anker Olsen, visiting PhD researcher from…
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Earth from Space: Circles in the desert
This image from Copernicus Sentinel-1 shows circular agricultural structures near Tabarjal, in the barren desert of…
Digging up a galactic time capsule
For this ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week, we gaze upon the field of stars that is NGC…
Ignis: Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski’s return to Earth and Europe
Scenes from ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski’s return to Earth and Europe. Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski was selected in November…
Vigil: ESA’s space weather reporter in deep space
Space weather ‘reporter’ Vigil will be the world’s first space weather mission to be permanently positioned…
Earth views from Cupola during Ignis mission
View of Earth as seen by ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski inside the seven-windowed cupola, the…
Φsat-2 view of Innsbruck, Austria
This true-colour image, showing the city of Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian state of Tyrol,…
Smile in the Large Space Simulator
In June 2025, Smile was put into the Large Space Simulator – Europe’s largest vacuum chamber.…
Testing, testing, testing – Let’s Smile (episode 3)
Smile is a brand-new space mission currently in the making. It will study how Earth responds to…
ESA – Paxi on the ISS
Astronauts on the International Space Station rely on many systems to keep them safe and comfortable…