Tanks for the lift

NASA’s powerful Space Launch System rocket is a few steps closer to launching the Orion spacecraft…

Thirty year-old microbiology experiment

This humble parcel-sized hardware is Europe’s very first closed-loop life-support experiment to fly in space, 30…

Thirty year-old microbiology experiment

This humble parcel-sized hardware is Europe’s very first closed-loop life-support experiment to fly in space, 30…

Box of life

Technology image of the week: This pioneering microbiology life-support experiment flew in space 30 years ago…

Box of life

Technology image of the week: This pioneering microbiology life-support experiment flew in space 30 years ago…

Summer fireworks on Rosetta’s comet

Blink and you might have missed them. But thanks to the cadence at which Rosetta took…

Summer fireworks on Rosetta’s comet

Blink and you might have missed them. But thanks to the cadence at which Rosetta took…

The Hockey Stick Galaxy

The star of this Hubble Picture of the Week is a galaxy known as NGC 4656,…

Paolo and Mares

The newest crewmember on the International Space Station, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, has hit the ground…

Widening gap

On 12 July 2017, Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission returned radar images showing that a lump of…