Solar Orbiter launch and deployment sequence

Solar Orbiter is scheduled to launch on an Atlas V 411 rocket from Cape Canaveral in…

Solar Orbiter: journey around the Sun

Solar Orbiter is scheduled to launch on an Atlas V 411 rocket from Cape Canaveral in…

Week in images: 20-24 January 2020

Week in images: 20-24 January 2020 Discover our week through the lens (20-24 January 2020). …

Flying solo

Solar Orbiter will orbit our nearest star, the Sun, observing it up close. It will take…

Supermassive influence

This peculiar galaxy, beautifully streaked with tendrils of reddish dust, is captured here in wonderful detail…

Earth from Space: Deforestation in Bolivia

Video: 00:03:15 This week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme features a Copernicus Sentinel-2 mage…

Deforestation in Bolivia

Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features an area in the Santa Cruz Department of Bolivia, where…

Watch live: final #SpacewalkforAMS

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan will exit the International Space Station airlock…

Galileo now replying to SOS messages worldwide

As well as providing global navigation services, Europe’s Galileo satellite constellation is acontributing to saving more…

Two Moon rovers are better than one

Image: ESA has signed a deal with space engineering company COMEX in France to develop an…