Venus Express

On 20 April 2006, after its first 9-day, elongated orbit around Venus, ESA’s Venus Express started…

Search for Mars life

As part of ESA’s ambitious, long-term Aurora exploration programme, ExoMars will search for traces of life…

Botswana from Space

Botswana’s Okavango Delta is highlighted in the lower left corner of this Envisat image. The Okavango…

Supernova leaves behind mysterious object

Thanks to data from ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite, a team of scientists taking a closer look at…

International Polar Year 2007-2008

Thousands of scientists from 60 countries will be conducting research during International Polar Year 2007-2008 and…

Kepler Crater as seen by SMART-1

This animation, made from images taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s…

First ESA long-duration ISS mission

ESA PR 18-2006. With NASA’s announcement today of the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on 1…

Baja from Space

Mexico�s Baja California Peninsula, highlighted in this Envisat image, lies at the southern tip of North…

European Space Parliament

Parliamentarians from 10 European countries met earlier this month in Brussels at the 8th European Interparliamentary…

Elements in Galaxy Clusters

Deep observations of two X-ray bright clusters of galaxies with ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite allowed a group…