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