Essential Climate Variables: Soil moisture

Within ESA’s Climate Change Initiative, expert Wolfgang Wagner of the Technical University of Vienna, explains the…

Galileo 11 & 12 mission

On 17 December, Galileo satellites 11 and 12 will be launched on top of the legendary…

An artificial eclipse

The Sun experiences both calm and tempestuous periods of activity. At its most active, our star…

Testing camera-based navigation software for asteroid mission

A test campaign took place this autumn at the Madrid headquarters of Spain’s GMV Innovating Solutions…

ESA Euronews: The future of planet Earth

This special edition of Space comes from the COP21 climate summit in Paris. We're here to…

Essential Climate Variables: Sea level

Within ESA’s Climate Change Initiative, expert Anny Cazenave of LEGOS, France, explains the importance of sea…

Explaining gravitational waves

Paul McNamara, ESA LISA Pathfinder Project Scientist, explains gravitational waves. ESA’s LISA Pathfinder lifted off 3…

Comet on 27 November 2015 – NavCam

Single frame enhanced NAVCAM taken on 27 November 2015, when Rosetta was 124 km from the…

Tim Peake Soyuz

ESA astronaut Tim Peake in his Sokol suit he will wear on launch day, 15 December.…

Dutch mosaic

This image is a mosaic based on Sentinel-1A satellite coverage of the Netherlands in three scans…