Supergiant X-ray Binary Stars

ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory has discovered a new, highly populated class of X-ray fast ‘transient’ binary…

New ISS Education Resource

The ISS Education Team today launches a new product: the ISS Education Kit on the web.…

Stellar Gas

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope view shows one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming…

Gobi Desert from Space

This Proba image shows numerous small lakes in the otherwise arid environment of the Gobi Desert…

First Galileo satellites named “GIOVE”

GIOVE – standing for “Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element” – is the name that has been chosen…

Venus Express en route

The European spacecraft Venus Express has been successfully placed into a trajectory that will take it…

Launch of the ATV pushed to 2007

Today, about 98 percent of the hardware for Jules Verne, Europe’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)…

Greenland Ice Sheet Growth

Researchers have utilised more than a decade’s worth of data from radar altimeters on ESA’s ERS…

Calcutta from Space

This colourful view of West Bengal in India, centred on the megacity of Kolkata (Calcutta), is…

Five years of ISS crews

Just over five years ago the Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft was launched into orbit. There had been…