Lake Volta Ghana

This is one of the largest artificial bodies of water in the world, as seen by…

Ariane 5 ECA prepares for launch

Preparations are well underway for the qualification flight of Europe’s latest launcher, the Ariane-5 ECA, from…

Earth & Space Week 2005

Celebrating our Planet While Reaching for the Stars. From 12 to 20 February, world leaders, policy…

Crater Lake Italy

Lake or Lago Albano is a crater lake located in the Alban Hills around 24 kilometres…

Oil Prospecting from Space

It takes seismic force to make the ground give up its secrets. Through the years, those…

Telemedicine: Healthcare’s New Frontier

Telemedicine is healthcare’s new frontier, a means of facilitating the distribution of human resources and professional…

SMART-1’s first images from the Moon

ESA’s SMART-1 captured its first close-range images of the Moon this January, during a sequence of…

Science Fiction Writing Competition

Now that the world has seen the first images of Saturn’s moon Titan, here is a…

Earth from Space: image of the week

This Envisat multi-temporal image shows the municipality named after Tianjin, China’s third largest city. Read more…

Iceberg collision?

Some anticipated the ‘collision of the century’: the vast, drifting B15-A iceberg was apparently on collision…