For an astronaut looking out of the International Space Station windows, city lights are brighter than…
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Metal from moondust
Technology image of the week: Almost all the oxygen has been extracted from this pile of…
Exoplanet and cosmology discoveries awarded Nobel Prize in Physics
ESA congratulates 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics laureates Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, who have been…
Closed water loop
Human and robotic exploration image of the week: A closed-loop toilet system demonstrates space technology at…
Can oceans turn the tide on the climate crisis?
As we pump more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the world is warming at an alarming…
Open Day in images
On 6 October, 9 159 people visited ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands to meet astronauts,…
Children imagine exoplanets
What do planets around other stars look like? Are they rocky, like our own planet Earth,…
Video: Steering Hera
Spain’s Xataka TV visits GMV in Madrid, where the company is testing the navigation software that…
Snakes and stones
The galaxy pictured in this Hubble Picture of the Week has an especially evocative name: the Medusa merger. …
Earth from Space: The Netherlands
In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us…