Space solutions for health

ESA announced the launch of its ‘Space Solutions’ initiative, a business-to-business provider of know-how and technologies…

Space tech on Europe’s racetracks again

As the 2004 motor-racing season gets underway, technology from Europe’s satellites and launchers is being put…

Demise in ice and fire

The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known.…

ESA and China’s joint Earth watch begins

More than a hundred leading European and Chinese scientists meet today on the island city of…

Buon appetito: cosmonauts on a Mediterranean diet

In parallel with the DELTA Mission, two Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) –…

Seeds in Space experiment

Maria van der Hoeven, Dutch Minister for Education, Culture and Science, officially started the Seeds in…

Western flank of Olympus Mons

These images from ESA’s Mars Express show the western flank of the shield volcano Olympus Mons…

Satellite technology to climb Everest

A satellite-based Health Monitoring Kit developed by the Canadian company March Networks and co-funded by ESA,…

Anniversary of the birth of Christiaan Huygens

On 14 April 1629, 375 years ago, the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens was born. ESA’s probe…

Global Warming Still Unproven

Is our world really heating up? Scientists are turning to Earth’s oceans to provide a scientifically…