Proba-V view of Hawaii

ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite gazes down at Earth’s largest volcano – Mauna Loa, or ‘long mountain’ which…

Asteroid cleaner

Analysing the dusty layers of low-gravity moons or asteroids using robots is on the agenda for…

Comet on 29 March 2016 – OSIRIS narrow-angle camera

OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image taken on 29 March 2016, when Rosetta was 820 km from Comet…

D-STAR satellite to launch from Kourou

The ESA Education Office Fly Your Satellite! (FYS) programme is designed to train the next generation…

Shrinking satellites

ESA is increasingly making use of miniaturised CubeSats for technology testing - a video guide to…

Paxi on the ISS: How to brush your teeth in space!

Our alien friend Paxi, ESA Education's mascot, went to visit Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui on board the…

A cosmic trick of the eye

Stars of different masses end their lives in different ways. While truly massive stars go out…

Comet on 27 March 2016 – NavCam

Single frame enhanced NavCam image taken on 27 March 2016, when Rosetta was 329 km from…

Sentinel-3: better than good

The new Sentinel-3A satellite recently began providing data from orbit. This very early image recorded on…

Earth from Space: Sentinel-3: better than good

Earth from Space is presented by Malì Cecere from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. The one…