A passing fancy

This Picture of the Week from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 5307, a planetary nebula which…

Register now for ESA’s Moon-themed Open Day

Registrations are now open for ESA’s Open Day in the Netherlands on Sunday 6 October –…

Track our spacecraft

For the first time ever, you can follow ESA’s fleet of spacecraft in Earth orbit and…

Space Bites: Becoming a Planetary Explorer | Matthias Maurer

ESA is training astronauts to become explorers. They will explore the lunar surface, collect samples, perform…

What are we looking at?

Deep Space Antenna 1 is ESA’s first 35-m deep dish, staring out to space to communicate…

Webb assembled

The two halves of the James Webb Space Telescope have been connected for the first time …

Connecting the Webb

Reaching a major milestone, engineers have connected successfully the two halves of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb…

CERN simulating Jupiter

Technology image of the week: this CERN test facility was used to recreate the highly radioactive…

Gaia untangles the starry strings of the Milky Way

Rather than leaving home young, as expected, stellar ‘siblings’ prefer to stick together in long-lasting, string-like…

ESA Open Day, ESTEC, 2019

Come and join us for ESA’s annual Open Day on Sunday 6 October at the Agency’s…