Earth from Space: Kilimanjaro

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

Rome, Italy

Italy’s capital city shows a distinctive patchwork of lights and darker areas when seen from the…

Rome, Italy

Italy’s capital city shows a distinctive patchwork of lights and darker areas when seen from the…

Polish space thruster

Technology image of the week: A Polish-built plasma thruster prototype being test-fired in ESA’s Propulsion Laboratory

Artist’s impression of Ceres

Dwarf planet Ceres is located in the asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.…

Soyuz TMA-15M, Futura mission patch, 2014

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti (IT) is assigned to fly on the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft to the…

Soyuz TMA-15M, Futura mission patch, 2014

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti (IT) is assigned to fly on the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft to the…

Alphasat’s pioneering high-frequency hosted payload set for experiments

European scientists can now begin probing unexplored frequencies, as mega telecom satellite Alphasat’s ‘Aldo Paraboni Q/V…

Alexander Gerst VNR

Alexander Gerst is the second of ESA's new astronauts to be selected to fly to the…

Sentinel-1

Sentinel-1 is the first satellite dedicated to Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme. This new satellite carries…