Tag: science

Space Science Image of the Week: BepiColombo’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter opens its solar wing

ESA’s Mars Express has captured images of one of the largest outflow channel networks on the Red Planet.

Hubble space telescope captures 30th anniversary image of a massive stellar explosion

Space Science Image of the Week: Herschel reveals stars growing along the filaments of a giant cloud of gas and dust

A feature-length compilation of the amazing adventures of Rosetta and Philae

The first ExoMars mission arrived at the Red Planet in October and now the second mission has been confirmed to complete its construction for a 2020 launch. 

Fly through an outflow channel on Mars that once saw vast volumes of water charging through

First images taken by the ExoMars orbiter during instrument testing at Mars

Space Science Image of the Week: This labyrinth-like scene on Mars may point to a former ocean and an icy subsurface

The ExoMars orbiter is preparing to make its first scientific observations at Mars during two orbits of the planet starting next week.

As Rosetta’s comet approached its most active period last year, the spacecraft spotted carbon dioxide ice – never before seen on a comet – followed by the emergence of two unusually large patches of water ice.

Space Science Image of the Week: The three closest pictures of Rosetta’s comet taken by the navigation camera in September

Today, ESA has invited European scientists to propose concepts for the third large mission in its science programme, to study the gravitational Universe.