Western Pakistan

Captured on 14 April 2018 by the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite, this image shows western Pakistan and…

Earth from space: Western Pakistan

In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over western…

Clocks, gravity, and the limits of relativity

The International Space Station will host the most precise clocks ever to leave Earth. Accurate to…

A unique experiment to explore black holes

What happens when two supermassive black holes collide? Combining the observing power of two future ESA…

Gravity to the max

Technology image of the week: ESA’s Large Diameter Centrifuge gives European researchers access to high gravity…

Air and water balloons in hypergravity

An air balloon, left, and water balloon, right, subjected to hypergravity conditions inside ESA’s Large Diameter…

Zero-G Spiderman

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: A parabolic flight experiment tests perception in altered…

One hundred years of gravity

One hundred years ago this month, observations performed during a total solar eclipse proved for the…

Gravity wonders

Space Science Image of the Week: Black holes provide an extreme cosmic laboratory to test some…

Merging black holes

Black holes are among the most fascinating objects in the Universe. Enclosing huge amounts of matter…