Mission planners at NASA and ESA’s Operations Centre (ESOC) have spent months debating the pros and…
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Third European service module for Orion to ferry astronauts on Moon landing
NASA and ESA have a long term plan for Europe to deliver a the European Service…
Beyond live
Tune in Saturday 20 July to watch the launch of Luca Parmitano to the International Space…
ESA microchip on Moon
Technology image of the week: China’s Chang’e-4 mission on the far side of the Moon is…
Soyuz selfie
In the Integration Building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 60 crewmembers Drew Morgan of…
#nofilter
Human and robotic exploration image of the week: Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface, taken by…
ESA confirms asteroid will miss Earth in 2019
Asteroid 2006 QV89, a small object 20 to 50 metres in diameter, was in the news lately…
Gaia starts mapping our galaxy’s bar
The first direct measurement of the bar-shaped collection of stars at the centre of our Milky…
Revealing the galactic bar
This colour chart shows the distribution of 150 million stars in the Milky Way probed using…
ESA identifies demand for satellites around the Moon
Dozens of very different commercial and institutional missions to the Moon are planned for the coming…