Gran Canaria wildfire

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the blaze on the island of Gran Canaria, one of Spain’s…

Thomas Pesquet on a new underwater lunar adventure

Over the next two weeks ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Drew Feustel and Japanese astronaut…

ESA’s 71st parabolic flight campaign experiments

Engineers, pilots, researchers and scientists convened in Bordeaux, France, for ESA’s 71st parabolic flight campaign. Over…

All instruments onboard Rosalind Franklin rover

The full suite of scientific instruments, including cameras that will give us our eyes on Mars,…

Pass the basalt

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano installs the BioRock experiment…

Grasp experiment

The GRASP experiment (Gravitational References for Sensimotor Performance) seeks to better understand how the central nervous…

A space cocktail of science, bubbles and sounds

The International Space Station was again the stage for novel European science and routine operations during…

Speaking to Sweden from space

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano addresses attendees at the Stockholm Culture festival in Sweden live from the…

Deployment test of Webb’s secondary mirror

The secondary mirror – visible in the top right corner of the image – is among…

This is ESA

ESA is the only space agency in the world that covers the whole range of space…