Angelic halo orbit chosen for humankind’s first lunar outpost

Mission planners at NASA and ESA’s Operations Centre (ESOC) have spent months debating the pros and…

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…