Solar Orbiter ready to depart Europe

ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission has completed its test campaign in Europe and is now being packed…

Evolution of the cracks in the Pine Island Glacier

Using radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, the animation shows the evolution of the two…

Women of ESA salute first all-female spacewalk

Friday 18 October 2019 is the first all-women spacewalk on the International Space Station. This picture…

ESA welcomes Luxembourg Deputy Prime Minister

Luxembourg Deputy Prime Minister Etienne Schneider paid a special visit to ESA’s astronaut centre in Cologne,…

A galactic portal

The galaxy NGC 4380 looks like a special effect straight out of a science fiction or…

Facing the Sun

Get to know our Solar Orbiter mission and how it will answer some of the biggest…

Korean Peninsula

Earth observation image of the week: Copernicus Sentinel-3 takes us over the Korean Peninsula …

Space supporter

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano wears the jersey of the FISDIR (Italian Federation of Sports for Intellectual…

Earth from Space: Korean Peninsula

In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us…

Solar Orbiter's journey around the Sun

Animation showing the trajectory of Solar Orbiter around the Sun, highlighting the gravity assist manoeuvres that…