Sentinel-3B liftoff replay

The second Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite, Sentinel-3B, lifted off on a Rockot from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in…

ILA 2018 opening tour

ESA Director General Jan Wörner welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the Space Pavilion at ILA, the Berlin…

ILA 2018 opening tour

ESA Director General Jan Wörner welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the Space Pavilion at ILA, the Berlin…

Gaia second data release – replay

Replay of ESA's 'Science is everywhere' media briefing at the Berlin Air and Space Show in…

Gaia second data release

The second data release of ESA’s Gaia mission has produced an extraordinary catalogue of over one…

Large Magellanic Cloud

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the nearest galaxies to our Milky Way, as viewed…

Parallax and proper motion

Simulated motion of a star in the sky caused by the combination of parallax, an apparent…

Life on a starship

Technology image of the week: A group of students and researchers at TU Delft are designing…

The Hyades cluster

Animated 3D view of the sky as observed by ESA’s Gaia satellite using information from the…

Fly between Gaia stars

A virtual flight that takes the viewer from the Solar System through our Milky Way Galaxy.…