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International Space Station Making New Solar Observations
This weekend the International Space Station will turn itself to face the Sun, enabling ESA’s SOLAR instrument to capture an…
ESA, Roscosmos Move Ahead with Plans for ExoMars Mission
Artist concept of an ExoMars rover. Credit: ESA After NASA was forced to back out of the joint ExoMars mission…
GOCE – How Low Can It Go?
Caption: GOCE over ice. Credits: ESA - AOES Medialab Since March 2009, the European Space Agency (ESA) mission, Gravity field…
Spaceflight: Taking it Lying Down
Caption: Bedrest volunteer in bed during a study conducted in 2005. Credit: ESA As you get older, do feel you…
Space for the Cost of a Movie Ticket
The European Space Agency (ESA) was founded by 10 European states back in 1975 with the idea that “We can…
Huge New ESA Tracking Station is Ready for Duty
Caption: ESA's giant Malargüe tracking station Credits: ESA/S. Marti To keep in contact with an ever growing armada of spacecraft…
Stirred, Not Shaken. Black Hole Antics Puff Up Whopper of a Galaxy
Its massive gravitational field warping space, the huge elliptical galaxy A2261-BCG, seems to have a diffuse halo of stars instead…
Cheops – A Little Satellite with Big Ideas
Caption: Artist impression of Cheops. Credit: University of Bern Big isn't always better. This is certainly true at ESA's new…
Integral: Ten Years Tracking Extreme Radiation Across the Universe
Caption: Artist's impression of ESA's orbiting gamma-ray observatory Integral. Image credit: ESA Integral, ESA's International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory launched ten…
Monster Black Holes Lurk at the Edge of Time
The reddish object in this infrared image is ULASJ1234+0907, located about 11 billion light-years from Earth. The red color comes…