Down to Earth

Image: NASA astronaut Jessica Meir rocking her Caves shirt aboard the International Space Station …

Social distancing app uses space to save lives

A free app that helps people observe social distancing to slow the spread of coronavirus is…

Ending global plant tracking, Proba-V assigned new focus

ESA’s cubic-metre-sized Proba-V minisatellite will soon end its nearly seven-year global mission to monitor the daily…

Live discussion with BepiColombo experts – replay

BepiColombo experts share their first results from the spacecraft’s 10 April 2020 Earth flyby. Launched in…

Jean-Marie Luton, 1942-2020

Jean-Marie Luton passed away on 16 April 2020 at the age of 77. He was ESA’s…

Week in images: 13-17 April 2020

Week in images: 13-17 April 2020 Discover our week through the lens Click…

ESA helps analyse untouched Moon rocks

Almost 50 years after the Apollo missions returned lunar material to Earth, ESA experts are helping…

Space is hard – mission control after Apollo 13

Apollo 13 has been called ‘NASA’s finest hour’. What was meant to have been the third…

Hunting for dead stars

This image depicts a swirling spiral galaxy named NGC 2906.  The blue speckles seen scattered across this galaxy…

Montevideo, Uruguay

Image: Montevideo, Uruguay Click here for original story, Montevideo, Uruguay Source: ESA…