ESA’s active debris removal mission: e.Deorbit (with annotations)

ESA's Clean Space initiative is studying an active debris removal mission called e.Deorbit, which will target…

Underground pool

Astronauts from five space agencies around the world are taking part in ESA’s CAVES training course…

Slovenia signs Association Agreement

Slovenian Minister of Economic Development and Technology, Zdravko Počivalšek (left), and ESA Director General Johann-Dietrich Woerner,…

Enceladus and its paper-thin crust

Of all the icy moons in the Solar System, Saturn’s moon Enceladus is probably the ‘hottest’…

CAVES 2016: Video log day 2

Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide’s video log of the second day of the extended exploration phase of…

Antarctic astronauts

ESA has teamed up with the British Antarctic Survey to study how humans survive conditions resembling…

CAVES 2016 campsite setup

A timelapse video of setting up base camp during the 2016 edition of ESA's underground astronaut…

Keeping Gaia’s memory

Tales from ESA's Materials and Electrical Components Lab: new video shows work done to safeguard the…

CubeSat aircraft tracking

During an initial live test, ESA's Gom-X3 CubeSat contributed aircraft tracking data to the Flightradar24 online…

Registration open for October’s ESA Open Day in the Netherlands

Registration has now opened for ESA’s annual Open Day in the Netherlands on Sunday, 2 October…