Envisat focuses on carbon-rich peat swamp forest fires

Multiple sensors on ESA’s Envisat environmental satellite have been used to peer beneath a vast pall…

ESA to give students hands-on Space experience

28 August will be an important day for ESA: not only will the SMART-1 spacecraft be…

Airbag to keep windsurfer safe on 8000 km voyage

Extreme sports adventurer Raphaëla Le Gouvello is about to windsurf 8000 km across the Pacific Ocean…

SMART-1 – the lunar adventure begins

This is clearly Europe’s time for interplanetary exploration. Having sent the first European mission to Mars,…

Space shows way to renewable energy future

How can we more effectively harness the free and endless energy resources of the Sun, wind…

Student Parabolic Flight

Gravity provides a vital input to our sensory and balance systems. What happens when there is…

Ion drives: Science fiction or science fact?

Science fiction movie fans know that, if you want to travel short distances from your home…

Portrait of a doomed Sea

Earth’s youngest desert is shown in this July MERIS satellite image of the Aral Sea in…

Sign up now for new ISS Education Kit

Starting in the autumn ESA will distribute the new International Space Station Education Kit for pupils…

ESA is hot on the trail of Geminga

Astronomers using ESA’s X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, have discovered a pair of X-ray tails, stretching 3 million…