Prospecting the Moon

A European drill and sample analysis package will search for water ice and other chemicals under…

Research in space for all: foams

Foams are ubiquitous in our daily lives: they are used to produce food, detergents and plastics.…

A beautiful whorl

Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes. One of the key galaxy types we see in the Universe…

Palm oil plantations

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over palm oil plantations in East Kalimantan – the Indonesian…

Earth from space: Palm oil plantations, Borneo

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

Soyuz rollout for Beyond mission

The Russian Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft that will transport ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano to the International Space…

Powering the future with lunar soil

Building a lunar base would be one of the next logical steps in our exploration of…

Building a toolkit for the Moon

As the world celebrates 50 years since the first lunar landing, the team at ESA’s astronaut…

Expedition 60 with their Soyuz

In the Integration Building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 60 crewmembers Drew Morgan of…

The Moon camera

Which camera to send to the Moon? The iconic images taken with the Hasselblad 500 series…