Extreme sports adventurer Raphaëla Le Gouvello is about to windsurf 8000 km across the Pacific Ocean…
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SMART-1 – the lunar adventure begins
This is clearly Europe’s time for interplanetary exploration. Having sent the first European mission to Mars,…
Space shows way to renewable energy future
How can we more effectively harness the free and endless energy resources of the Sun, wind…
Student Parabolic Flight
Gravity provides a vital input to our sensory and balance systems. What happens when there is…
Ion drives: Science fiction or science fact?
Science fiction movie fans know that, if you want to travel short distances from your home…
Portrait of a doomed Sea
Earth’s youngest desert is shown in this July MERIS satellite image of the Aral Sea in…
Sign up now for new ISS Education Kit
Starting in the autumn ESA will distribute the new International Space Station Education Kit for pupils…
ESA is hot on the trail of Geminga
Astronomers using ESA’s X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, have discovered a pair of X-ray tails, stretching 3 million…
Space engineering helps drill better holes in planet Earth
Expertise derived from working on the joint NASA-ESA Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its moon Titan…
Golden legacy from ESA’s observatory
Scientists are celebrating the thousandth scientific publication from ESA’s Infrared Space Observatory. ISO is fast becoming…