Spaceship to ship: where IXV will call home

A view of the marine tracking station antenna on the recovery ship, Nos Aries, now in…

Soyuz training with Gennady Padalka

ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen takes us inside the Soyuz simulator at Star City as he participates…

IXV: technologies tested

IXV, Europe's Intermediate Experimental Vehicle, will soon be launched by Vega into a suborbital path. As…

Comet on 22 January 2015 – NavCam

This four-image mosaic comprises Rosetta navigation camera images taken from a distance of 27.9 km from…

Vega VV04 upper composite integration

Integration of the fully integrated fairing of Vega VV04, carrying IXV, in the launcher assembly area…

Vega VV04 upper composite integration

Integration of the fully integrated fairing of Vega VV04, carrying IXV, in the launcher assembly area…

XMM-Newton and Hubble view of Jupiter’s Ghost

Names of astronomical objects are often ambiguous, especially when the historical designation of a certain class…

ATV-4 reentry timelapse from space

ESA’s fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, burnt up on 2 November at 12:04 GMT over…

Height of Bangladesh mangrove

Information on mangrove forest height can be used to estimate biomass, which is extremely important for…

Philae above the comet?

Rosetta’s OSIRIS wide-angle camera captured this view of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 12 November 2014 at 17:18…