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…

Medical Treatment via Satellite

The ESA funded telemedicine project called I-DISCARE has been put into action to help victims along…

Seeing, touching and smelling Titan

On 14 January ESA’s Huygens probe made an historic first ever descent to the surface of…

Giant Robot Prevents Landslides

Fighting landslides is dangerous work, but help from space is on its way. Recent testing in…

Huygens lands in Titanian mud

Although Huygens landed on Titan’s surface on 14 January, activity at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre…

Titan – view from 10K high

This picture is a composite of 30 images from ESA’s Huygens probe. They were taken from…

Earth from Space: image of the week

This is a nighttime thermal image showing pack ice over the Foxe Basin in North-east Canada.…

Huygens lands on Titan

After its seven-year journey through the Solar System on board the Cassini spacecraft, ESA’s Huygens probe…