The 150-kilometre-per-hour winds of Typhoon Nida brought destruction and death to the Philippines this week. At…
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Beagle 2: lessons learned
The Commission of Inquiry on Beagle 2, jointly set up in February between ESA and the…
It is awkward being in weightlessness
After Wubbo Ockels (1985), ESA astronaut André Kuipers is now the second Dutchman to know what…
StarTiger to roar in Finland
ESA is hoping to repeat the success of its first StarTiger project. This time the venue…
XMM-Newton detects X-ray ‘solar cycle’ in distant star
For years, astronomers have wondered whether stars similar to the Sun go through periodic cycles of…
Great Wall of China seen from space
ESA’s Proba satellite here shows a winding segment of the 7240-km long Great Wall of China…
Images of Acheron Fossae Mars
Images taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express are of…
Minature Earth observer put to many uses
Think of ESA’s Proba as the little satellite that does a lot. It is only the…
DELTA mission concludes with Soyuz landing
The 11-day DELTA mission to the International Space Station (ISS) came to a successful conclusion when…