ATV-4 before docking

The fourth in ESA's series of five Automated Transfer Vehicles was launched on June 5th, 2013…

Exploring new frontiers of frequency

Telecommunications is a booming business. As mobile phones become increasingly ubiquitous, broadband Internet serves everything from…

Earth from Space: Special edition

Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition,…

Gaia sunshade deployment

Animation showing the deployment of Gaia’s sunshade. During launch, the 10 m-wide sunshield is stowed against…

Space droids calling

Secondary-school students can play the ultimate robot game: the annual Zero Robotics tournament turns the International…

Weightless weak equivalence principle

During ten seconds of weightlessness Brynle Barrett from the Laboratory of Photonics, Numerical Sciences and Nanosciences…

M101

The face-on spiral galaxy M101, or the Pinwheel Galaxy, is seen at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths…

A very bright contortionist

The contorted object captured by Hubble in this picture is IRAS 22491-1808, also known as the…

Sterex images of ATV-4 launch

ESA's ATV-4 launch images taken by the Sterex experiment. These images provide a stunning vision of the…

Sterex images of ATV-4 launch: ATV-4 Release sequence

ATV-4 release sequence taken from ESA's ATV-4 launch recorded with the Sterex experiment. These images provide…