Ariane 5 liftoff on flight VA218

On 11 September 2014, Ariane 5 flight VA218 lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French…

Comet on 10 September 2014 – NavCam

Four image NAVCAM mosaic of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, using images taken on 10 September when Rosetta was…

Farewell ISS

Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov (left), NASA astronaut Steve  Swanson (centre) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev (right)…

Liftoff of Ariane 5 flight VA218

Lifting off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, at 22:05 GMT on 11 September 2014…

NEEMO 19: Mission day 3 .

At the end of their third day of living and working underwater, the NEEMO 19 crew…

Rosetta mission selfie at comet

Using the CIVA camera on Rosetta’s Philae lander, the spacecraft have snapped a ‘selfie’ at comet…

Mirror array in Large Space Simulator

This vast enclosure, made to appear larger still by an array of mirrors at its end,…

CAVES 2014: Course overview

A first video update from the CAVES 2014 campaign that is now underway in Sardinia, Italy.…

NEEMO 19: Mission day 2

In response to questions received on social media, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen shows us the Aquarius…

Space Aurora

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst took this image of an aurora as he circled Earth on the…