Paxi on the ISS: How to brush your teeth in space!

Our alien friend Paxi, ESA Education's mascot, went to visit Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui on board the…

A cosmic trick of the eye

Stars of different masses end their lives in different ways. While truly massive stars go out…

Comet on 27 March 2016 – NavCam

Single frame enhanced NavCam image taken on 27 March 2016, when Rosetta was 329 km from…

Sentinel-3: better than good

The new Sentinel-3A satellite recently began providing data from orbit. This very early image recorded on…

Earth from Space: Sentinel-3: better than good

Earth from Space is presented by Malì Cecere from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. The one…

The galactic centre

This infrared image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the centre of the Milky Way,…

Going to space

With liftoff for Sentinel-1B, the next Copernicus mission, just weeks away, teams at ESA’s ESOC mission…

Cheops competition drawings

Selection of drawings submitted to the Cheops competition. Cheops is a small space telescope dedicated to observing…

Lake Amadeus

Sentinel-2A captured Lake Amadeus in Australia’s Northern Territory on 19 December 2015.

Tracking Tim’s iceberg

ESA astronaut Tim Peake saw this iceberg from the International Space Station 400 km above Earth…