ExoMars Progress Update

ExoMars 2020 has passed a number of milestones. The European carrier module was delivered in March.…

Nobel-winning lithium-ion batteries powering space

ESA’s space power experts congratulate the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry, for their…

ExoMars parachute progress

Positive steps towards solving the problems discovered with the ExoMars mission parachutes have been taken in…

Head of tech interviewed

Space YouTuber Scott Manley interviewed Franco Ongaro, ESA’s Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality, as part…

Foreground asteroid passing the Crab Nebula

When astronomers use the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the deep sky, asteroids from our…

Talking to the team

French podcast Les Explorateurs talks to two members of the Hera asteroid mission team, manager Ian…

Let's talk space

ESA Web TV reports on our ‘next space generation’ Space Talk where students gave their opinion…

A spiral in profile

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope sees galaxies of all shapes, sizes, brightnesses, and orientations in the cosmos. Sometimes, the telescope…

Space selfie

Selfie time! ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano shared this photo with NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Christina…

Lake Natron, Tanzania

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over two saline lakes in East Africa: the larger Lake…