ESA highlights 2018

ESA can look back at a fulfilling 2018. It has been a year marked by new…

Climbing the cosmic distance ladder

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals an ancient, glimmering ball of stars called…

Climbing the cosmic distance ladder

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals an ancient, glimmering ball of stars called…

Living in space

Research laying the groundwork for living and working in space to stay

Living in space

Research laying the groundwork for living and working in space to stay

ESA sets clock by distant spinning stars

ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands has begun running a pulsar-based clock. The ‘PulChron’ system measures…

ESA sets clock by distant spinning stars

ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands has begun running a pulsar-based clock. The ‘PulChron’ system measures…

Mission accomplished for ESA’s butane-propelled CubeSat

The cereal-box sized GomX-4B – ESA’s biggest small CubeSat yet flown – has completed its mission…

Mission accomplished for ESA’s butane-propelled CubeSat

The cereal-box sized GomX-4B – ESA’s biggest small CubeSat yet flown – has completed its mission…

ESA’s e.Deorbit debris removal mission reborn as servicing vehicle

ESA’s proposed e.Deorbit mission to take down a derelict satellite is being reborn in a wider…