Rad dishes in space

Image: NASA astronaut Kate Rubins poses next to a thriving radish crop growing inside the Advanced…

Origami antenna springs up for small satellites

A novel helical antenna that sprang from a container the size of a tuna can is…

3D print your own Mars rover with ExoMy

Europe’s Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has a younger ’sibling’ – ExoMy. The blueprints and software for…

British technology to turn Moon dust into oxygen

British engineers are fine-tuning a process that will be used to extract oxygen from lunar dust,…

Week in images: 23-27 November 2020

Week in images: 23-27 November 2020 Discover our week through the lens Click…

Turning Moon dust into oxygen

British engineers are fine-tuning a process that will be used to extract oxygen from lunar dust,…

Supercapacitors ready to deliver maximum power to space

High-power supercapacitors – already found within terrestrial electric cars, trains, lifts and cranes – are on…

Get involved in ESA's quest for quantum

Just over one year since Google claimed to use a fledgling quantum computer to solve a…

Mysterious dark rays

Some of the most stunning views of our sky occur at sunset, when sunlight pierces the…

Kiruna, Sweden

Image: Kiruna, the northernmost town in Sweden, is featured in this snowy image captured by the…