Planck first light survey – Image

Credits: ESA, LFI & HFI Consortia. Background optical image: Axel Mellinger

Columbus to host worldwide sea traffic tracking experiment

ESA's Columbus module on the International Space Station is being fitted with experimental hardware to track…

Cupola mated to the Tranquility node in NASA’s Space Station Processing Facility – Image

Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2009

SMOS – Science

A better knowledge of our planet behaviour; this is the objective of SMOS that will be…

Zoom out of Stephan’s Quintet – Video

Credits: NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

STS-128 crew line up behind Discovery – Image

Credits: NASA

Space Shuttle Discovery slows to a stop after landing at Edwards Air Force Base at the end of the STS-128 mission – Image

Credits: NASA

Plentiful plankton – Image

Credits: ESA, 2009

Chinks in ISS armour deliver data on space junk impacts

Speeding along in orbit at more than seven kilometres per second, the International Space Station has…

ESA astronauts Frank De Winne and Christer Fuglesang participate in an inflight call with Swedish TV – Video

Credits: NASA TV