Gaia scanning the sky

A visualisation of how Gaia scanned the sky during its first 14 months of operations, between…

Spin Your Thesis! 2016 – HypE team

As part of ESA Education's Hands-on programmes, 4 students  from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and University of…

Studying meteorites

Clockwise from top: ESA’s Matthias Maurer, Lina Tomelleri, Giorgio Tomelleri, Anna Maria Fioretti from the Institute…

Full circle: space algae fighting malnutrition in Congo

Looking for food that could be harvested by astronauts far from Earth, researchers focused on spirulina,…

Maroš Šefčovič delivered an address to the ESA Council

Maroš Šefčovič, Vice-President of the European Commission, delivered an address to the ESA Council, on 13…

First data from ESA’s Gaia mission

Launched in December 2013, Gaia is destined to create the most accurate map yet of the…

Where space starts

A short video invitation to ESA's Open Day in the Netherlands on Sunday 2 October; come…

Come see where space starts

ESA’s Open Day in the Netherlands takes place on Sunday 2 October. For more information and…

ESA’s Star Mapper visualisation

In 1989, ESA launched the first space mission dedicated to astrometry – the science of charting…

Proba-3: set the controls for the verge of the Sun

By converging in orbit, a pair of small satellites will open a new view on the…