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…

Satellites join search for source of Ebola virus

Microscopes are not the only tools available to study disease. A new ESA project employs satellites…

ESA to build a deep space ground station in Spain

Communicating with ESA’s spacecraft such as Mars Express, or SMART-1, Rosetta and Venus Express – yet…