Space for inspiration

Spaceflight is one of the most inspiring endeavours of humankind. Join ESA and experts from many…

Not your typical protostar

At the centre of this image, captured by ESA’s Herschel space observatory, is a truly peculiar…

Ascend – the wildlife management solution for airports

Ascend is a satellite-based wildlife monitoring tool for airports. Developed by Ascend XYZ in Denmark under…

Italy earthquake displacement

Combining two Sentinel-1 radar scans from 20 August (Sentinel-1B) and 26 August 2016 (Sentinel-1A), this interferogram…

Comet on 24 August 2016 – OSIRIS narrow-angle camera

OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image taken on 24 August 2016, when Rosetta was 9.3 km from the…

Third Bosphorus Bridge

This image from the Sentinel-2A satellite captures Turkey's Third Bosphorus Bridge on 8 February 2016. The…

Mutant strip

Mutant soybeans planted as part of a campaign to support the development of ESA’s FLEX mission…

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…