Kepler Mission: Recovery Begins

Over the next week, the team will attempt tests to explore recovery of the spacecraft's reaction wheels.

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NASA's Sofia Investigates the Southern Sky from New Zealand

NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory will be based in New Zealand for the next two weeks, taking advantage of the Southern Hemisphere's orientation to study celestial objects that are difficult or impossible to see in the northern sky.

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Earth from Space

Join us Friday, 19 July, at 10:00 CEST for an 800 km-high tour with spectacular images from Earth-observing satellite.

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Before the leak

Luca Parmitano and Chris Cassidy took these photographs of each other during their spacewalk. Shortly afterwards Luca reported water floating behind his head inside his helmet and NASA Mission Control decided to end the spacewalk early.

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Deep-space listening stations gain made-in-Europe hearing boost

Picking up ultra-weak signals from spacecraft exploring deep in our Solar System requires cooling a detector to within a few degrees of absolute zero. Thanks to ESA's support, the technology is now available in Europe for the first time.

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Target asteroid tracked by European teams

In a recent close-ish flyby, asteroid 2002 GT was studied in detail for the first time by a network of European astronomers. The observations were coordinated by ESA's asteroid centre in Italy, and should prove crucial for a future spacecraft rendezvous.

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Last look before launch

Alphasat is seen for the last time before being encapsulated by the Ariane 5 fairing, in preparation for launch on Thursday 25 July
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