This was probably the last time I sat in a simulator for quite a while… The next capsule will be real.—Das war vermutlich für eine ganze Weile das letzte Mal, […]

#TimPeake’s Spacecraft has touched down at the National Museum of Scotland! The display will be open to the public from 13:00 this afternoon, so get your space boots ready! https://t.co/JEmpUqIeRj […]

Rendezvous alley – this robotic arm mounted on a 33-m track at our @ESA_Tech centre, is used to simulate close approach to drifting satellites, asteroids or planetary bodies.Read more: https://t.co/H722rXM1NX […]

Call for media: Last look at ESA’s #Aeolus wind satellite at @AirbusSpace in Toulouse, France, on 5 June.Details and accreditation: https://t.co/DssjwkCe3w pic.twitter.com/Lqa1KKEPoV — ESA (@esa) May 17, 2018

There's only one star we can travel to directly — and that’s our own: the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and @ESA’s Solar Orbiter will team up to take us […]

Captured last week after sunset on a Chilean autumn night, an exceptional airglow floods this allsky view from Las Campanas Observatory. The airglow was so intense it diminished parts of […]