A spiral amongst friends

This image, taken with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), features the spiral galaxy NGC 4680. At…

Four mission ideas to compete for Earth Explorer 11

As part of ESA’s commitment to develop and build satellite missions that push the boundaries of…

EnVision: ESA's next mission to Venus

EnVision is ESA’s next mission to Venus, planned to launch in the early 2030s. It will…

Forest degradation primary driver of carbon loss in the Brazilian Amazon

Forest degradation has become the largest process driving carbon loss in the Brazilian Amazon, according to…

ESA flying payloads on wooden satellite

The world’s first wooden satellite is on the way, in the shape of the Finnish WISA…

Arctic coastal sea ice thinning twice as fast than thought

Research based on ice-thickness data from ESA’s CryoSat and Envisat missions along with a new model…

Pilotes

Image: ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Megan MacArthur run sessions on the Pilote experiment…

Software making space missions smarter

To help venture further into space, or to gather ever more data, space missions keep on…

Duct and cable management in space

Timelapse video made during ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s second mission to the International Space Station, “Alpha”.…

Kylian Mbappé calls astronaut Thomas Pesquet

Video: 00:21:00 ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet talked to French national football team player Kylian Mbappé from…