Searching for habitable planets with Eddington

The scientific community involved in the search for habitable planets will meet in Palermo (Italy) on…

Space in your wardrobe ?

Whether you find yourself in the icy wastes of Antarctica or caught in the midst of…

Columbia Failure investigation technical update

The Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) continues their work into the investigation of the accident and…

Entries in for design Aurora competition

The entries are now in for the Aurora student design competition: a call to graduate and…

Contract with DLR for Columbus Control Centre

On 31 March at Oberpfaffenhofen, near Munich, Germany, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight Mr Jörg Feustel-Büechl…

ESA Studies Missions to Safeguard the Earth

Early on the morning of 30 June 1908, the vast forest of western Siberia was illuminated…

Parabolic flights

The only way to get away from the sensation and effects of gravity is to give…

Pasteur to Search for Life on Mars

Are we alone, or is there life beyond Earth? Has life ever existed on Mars? The…

ESA’s free-fall laboratory poised to escape

This ‘Zero-G’ Airbus A300 parked on the tarmac at Bordeaux-Merignac Airport is really a laboratory with…

New look for ESA Human Spaceflight web site

ESA’s Human Spaceflight web site has today been relaunched with a whole new design. All the…