IXV fit to fly

The Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle left the Netherlands from Schiphol airport on 23 September 2014 for the…

Rosetta Mission Status

Rosetta mission is ongoing. The landing site for Philae has been chosen. The adventure continues! But…

A cosmic hurricane

The giant planet Saturn is mostly a gigantic ball of rotating gas, completely unlike our solid…

Comet on 19 September 2014 – NavCam

Four-image NAVCAM mosaic of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, using images taken on 19 September 2014 when Rosetta was…

An interacting colossus

This picture, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), shows…

Helsinki, Finland

This image acquired by Japan’s ALOS satellite on 28 June 2009 shows Finland’s capital and largest…

Earth from Space: Helsinki

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. In the…

Friendly little robot

Come and visit us at the ESTEC Open Day, 5 October 2014. Learn more about European…

The way we were

Technology image of the week: Engineering models of pioneering European satellites – such as ESRO-4, seen…

Sandstorm over the Sahara

A sandstorm over the Sahara desert in Africa seen by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst from the…