Luca sets up his MWS (Mini Work Station) for the EVA

Probing Mesopotamia

The recently launched Proba-V miniaturised satellite captured this image over the border region of northern Syria,…

Earth from Space: Probing Mesopotamia

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

Power dressing

Expansive solar arrays for Europe’s Alphasat, the most sophisticated commercial telecommunications satellite ever built.

Power dressing

Technology image of the week: Expansive solar arrays for Europe’s Alphasat telecommunications satellite

Perfect sky

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is spending six months on the International Space Station conducting experiments and…

Gaia scanning the sky

This animation shows the Gaia spacecraft spinning in space scanning the sky. Gaia’s mission relies on…

ESA Pavilion, Paris Air and Space Show 2013

The 50th International Paris Air & Space Show at Le Bourget opened its doors on Monday 17 June.…

Galileo FOC

These pictures give the first detailed views of the next batch of Galileo satellites, the first…

Inseparable galactic twins

Looking towards the constellation of Triangulum (The Triangle), in the northern sky, lies the galaxy pair…