Night into day

Space Science Image of the Week: Saturn’s shadow draws a line between night and day across…

Greece

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

Goodyear experiment

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano working on an experiment from Goodyear inside the Life Sciences Glovebox. He posted…

Working with the glovebox

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano works on an experiment inside the Life Sciences Glovebox. The portable glovebox…

A passing fancy

This Picture of the Week from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 5307, a planetary nebula which…

Register now for ESA’s Moon-themed Open Day

Registrations are now open for ESA’s Open Day in the Netherlands on Sunday 6 October –…

Track our spacecraft

For the first time ever, you can follow ESA’s fleet of spacecraft in Earth orbit and…

Space Bites: Becoming a Planetary Explorer | Matthias Maurer

ESA is training astronauts to become explorers. They will explore the lunar surface, collect samples, perform…

What are we looking at?

Deep Space Antenna 1 is ESA’s first 35-m deep dish, staring out to space to communicate…

Webb assembled

The two halves of the James Webb Space Telescope have been connected for the first time …