On 20th July 2019, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will be launched to the International Space Station…
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Preparing for the Beyond mission
On 20 July 2019, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will be launched to the International Space Station…
Preparing science Beyond Earth
The next astronauts to join the International Space Station are on their marks for their launch…
ESAIL undergoes its final preparations for launch
The ESAIL microsatellite developed under ESA’s programme for tracking ships at sea is going through its…
X-ray serendipity
The purple lines and blotches scattered across this image show something incredible: all of the X-ray sources…
Space Bites: How to Survive on an Extraterrestrial Planet | Lucie Poulet
Plans for human space exploration in the next decades are to leave Earth orbit and go…
Solar eclipse in context
A composite of space- and ground-based observations gathered at the time of the solar eclipse on…
Pioneer satellites launched
The latest ESA Partnership Projects mission has launched two tiny supercomputing nanosatellites aboard a Soyuz rocket…
In bloom
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week shows bright, colourful pockets of star formation blooming like roses…
Irminger Sea ice swirl
Earth observation image of the week: the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over fragments of swirling…