Tag: news

  • Aliens observed


    Space Invader art has arrived at ESA’s Earth observation centre in Italy

  • ESTEC's Open Day


    Snapshots from the Sunday 4 October 2015 Open Day at ESA’s technical heart, the most popular one yet

  • A Lunar Pox


    Space Science Image of the Week: ESA’s SMART-1 captures Moon’s pockmarked pole with stunning clarity

  • Week In Images


    Our week through the lens:
    28 September – 2 October 2015

  • Berlin celebration


    Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2A false colour image of Berlin in Germany, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme

  • Fifth mission for Ariane 5 this year

    This evening an Ariane 5 delivered two telecom satellites into their planned orbits after lifting off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

  • SMOS meets ocean monsters

    ESA’s SMOS and two other satellites are together providing insight into how surface winds evolve under tropical storm clouds in the Pacific Ocean. This new information could to help predict extreme weather at sea.

  • Space for visitors


    Technology image of the week: Visitor centre Space Expo will be participating in Sunday’s ESTEC Open Day with a bargain admission offer

  • Space portrait


    A unique portrait of ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen made for the Cupola observatory on the International Space Station by visual artist Vhils

  • When black holes collide


    Space science image of the week: A simulation of gravitational radiation rippling away from a pair of colliding black holes

  • Improve the Station tour


    Have you been exploring the International Space Station in our panoramic tour? Tell us what you think and how it could be improved

  • Principia


    Read about ESA’s next astronaut mission: Tim Peake will be launched to the International Space Station on 15 December

  • Week In Images


    Our week through the lens:
    21-25 September 2015