Venus Express plunging into the atmosphere

After eight years in orbit, ESA’s Venus Express has completed routine science observations and is preparing…

Spacewalk training

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti participates in a spacewalk training session at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Samantha…

Hurricane Arthur

Hurricane Arthur skirting the east coast of the United States. Photographed from the International Space Station…

Mount Pinatubo, Philippines

This image from the Sentinel-1A radar satellite on 6 June shows part of the Philippine island…

Earth from Space: Pinatubo

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. This week’s…

A fossil in the making

Discovered by astronomer William Herschel in the late 1700s, NGC 201 is a barred spiral galaxy…

Comet on 28 June 2014

Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, seen in Rosetta's OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 28 June 2014, from a distance of…

Dropship for Mars

ESA's latest StarTiger project developed and flew a dropship design to land rovers safely on Mars

Dropship offers safe landings for Mars rovers

The dramatic conclusion to ESA’s latest StarTiger project: a ‘dropship’ quadcopter steers itself to lower a…

Dropship offers safe landings for Mars rovers

The dramatic conclusion to ESA’s latest StarTiger project: a ‘dropship’ quadcopter steers itself to lower a…