Exoplanet and cosmology discoveries awarded Nobel Prize in Physics

ESA congratulates 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics laureates Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, who have been…

Closed water loop

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: A closed-loop toilet system demonstrates space technology at…

Can oceans turn the tide on the climate crisis?

As we pump more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the world is warming at an alarming…

Open Day in images

On 6 October, 9 159 people visited ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands to meet astronauts,…

Children imagine exoplanets

What do planets around other stars look like? Are they rocky, like our own planet Earth,…

Video: Steering Hera

Spain’s Xataka TV visits GMV in Madrid, where the company is testing the navigation software that…

Snakes and stones

The galaxy pictured in this Hubble Picture of the Week has an especially evocative name: the Medusa merger. …

Earth from Space: The Netherlands

In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us…

The Netherlands

The Netherlands is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. This image…

Latest from Rosetta

Three years after the Rosetta mission officially ended in 2016, scientists met at ESA’s ESTEC facility…