Apollo astronaut champions Hera for planetary defence

Having spent much of the 21st century developing planetary defence techniques, Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart is…

ESA’s new ‘Farmageddon’ collection with Shaun the Sheep

We’re celebrating the release of the second Shaun the Sheep movie, Farmageddon, which has a space…

Join the Moon Camp Challenge!

ESA – European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer invites students all over the world to participate…

Revealing interior temperature of Antarctic ice sheet

As ESA’s SMOS satellite celebrates 10 years in orbit, yet another result has been added to…

Call for Media: Last glimpse of the Sentinel-6 satellite

Press Release N° 18–2019 The Copernicus Sentinel-6 satellite, which will measure sea-level rise and ice thickness,…

Juice cast in gold

Image: In a decade’s time, an exciting new visitor will enter the Jovian system: ESA’s Jupiter…

A decade probing the Sun

Ten years ago, a small satellite carrying 17 new devices, science instruments and technology experiments was…

Craving for cold isolation – research doctor rotation in Antarctica

Did you know the largest desert in the world is also the coldest place in the…

Lonely hearts club

Galaxies may seem lonely, floating alone in the vast, inky blackness of the sparsely populated cosmos…

Moonrise at Europe's mission control

After a spooky day of spacecraft operations, a crescent Moon rises over ESA’s mission control in…