ESA’s active debris removal mission: e.Deorbit (with annotations)

ESA's Clean Space initiative is studying an active debris removal mission called e.Deorbit, which will target…

Underground pool

Astronauts from five space agencies around the world are taking part in ESA’s CAVES training course…

Slovenia signs Association Agreement

Slovenian Minister of Economic Development and Technology, Zdravko Počivalšek (left), and ESA Director General Johann-Dietrich Woerner,…

Enceladus and its paper-thin crust

Of all the icy moons in the Solar System, Saturn’s moon Enceladus is probably the ‘hottest’…

CAVES 2016: Video log day 2

Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide’s video log of the second day of the extended exploration phase of…

Antarctic astronauts

ESA has teamed up with the British Antarctic Survey to study how humans survive conditions resembling…

CAVES 2016 campsite setup

A timelapse video of setting up base camp during the 2016 edition of ESA's underground astronaut…

Comet on 25 June 2016 – NavCam

Single frame enhanced NavCam image taken on 25 June 2016, when Rosetta was about 16.7 km…

Once upon a time… Rosetta’s second year at the comet

Rosetta describes the exciting discoveries she made during her second year at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, after the…

Auroras on Jupiter

This image combines an image taken with Hubble Space Telescope in the optical (taken in spring…