Blue Bahamas

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano captured this image of the Bahamas from the International Space Station and…

First Sun

First sunlight in Antartctic research station Concordia after four months of darkness. ESA research medical doctor…

The death of a star

This atmospheric Picture of the Week, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a dark, gloomy scene…

Seeking innovative ideas for exploring lunar caves

How would you design a system to detect, map and explore caves on the Moon? Our latest…

Gran Canaria wildfire

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the blaze on the island of Gran Canaria, one of Spain’s…

Thomas Pesquet on a new underwater lunar adventure

Over the next two weeks ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Drew Feustel and Japanese astronaut…

ESA’s 71st parabolic flight campaign experiments

Engineers, pilots, researchers and scientists convened in Bordeaux, France, for ESA’s 71st parabolic flight campaign. Over…

All instruments onboard Rosalind Franklin rover

The full suite of scientific instruments, including cameras that will give us our eyes on Mars,…

Pass the basalt

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano installs the BioRock experiment…

Grasp experiment

The GRASP experiment (Gravitational References for Sensimotor Performance) seeks to better understand how the central nervous…