From the Solar System to the Hyades cluster

A virtual journey, from our Solar System through the Milky Way, based on data from the…

Gaia scanning the sky

A visualisation of how Gaia scanned the sky during its first 14 months of operations, between…

Spin Your Thesis! 2016 – HypE team

As part of ESA Education's Hands-on programmes, 4 students  from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and University of…

Studying meteorites

Clockwise from top: ESA’s Matthias Maurer, Lina Tomelleri, Giorgio Tomelleri, Anna Maria Fioretti from the Institute…

Maroš Šefčovič delivered an address to the ESA Council

Maroš Šefčovič, Vice-President of the European Commission, delivered an address to the ESA Council, on 13…

First data from ESA’s Gaia mission

Launched in December 2013, Gaia is destined to create the most accurate map yet of the…

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…