A new dimension in robotics

ESA trainee Sander Coene explains the significance of virtual reality and its potential for future space…

Open Day in pictures

A look back in pictures at our ESA Open Day on 7 October 2018 – when…

Open Day in pictures

A look back in pictures at our ESA Open Day on 7 October 2018 – when…

BepiColombo mission to Mercury

BepiColombo is scheduled for launch at 01:45 GMT (03:45 CEST) on 20 October on an Ariane…

BepiColombo mission to Mercury

BepiColombo is scheduled for launch at 01:45 GMT (03:45 CEST) on 20 October on an Ariane…

BepiColombo launcher

This is the launcher that will transport BepiColombo to orbit. The upper part with the spacecraft…

BepiColombo launcher

This is the launcher that will transport BepiColombo to orbit. The upper part with the spacecraft…

Mediterranean slick

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has imaged the oil spill in the Mediterranean following a collision between…

Mediterranean slick

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has imaged the oil spill in the Mediterranean following a collision between…

Hot X-ray glow from massive cluster of galaxies

Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory have captured the X-ray glow (shown here in purple) emitted…