Flash and splash

Observing large but perfectly shaped bubbles in weightlessness and recording them with a high-speed camera is…

GOCE senses changing gravity

The animation, based on measurements from ESA’s GOCE satellite and the NASA–German Grace mission, shows that…

ESA Euronews: Close encounters with Venus

Venus is our mysterious neighbour, a strange world where the Sun rises in the west and…

IXV’s small step

Technology image of the week: Drop-test model of ESA’s IXV spaceplane on the move for Open…

IXV drop-test model being moved

This drop-test model of ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) spaceplane will be one of the star…

Day and night

It takes 90 minutes for an astronaut on the International Space Station to circle Earth completely,…

Earth from Space: Athens on the radar

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

Dragon-4

Despite running the International Space Station with just three crewmembers, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA…

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…