Preparing Falcon 9 for Crew-2 launch
A Falcon 9 Crew Dragon is prepared for the launch of Crew-2 on launch pad 39A on 19 April 2021 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is returning to ...
Space Science
Gaia reveals a new member of the Milky Way family
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, began forming around 12 billion years ago. Since then, it has been growing in both mass and size through a sequence of mergers with other galaxies. Perhaps most ...
Cosmic fireworks
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy NGC 6984, an elegant spiral galaxy in the constellation Indus roughly 200 million light-years away from Earth. The ...
First moments of Thomas outside of the Dragon
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, outside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour shortly after having splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, USA. Thomas is the first ...
First moments of Thomas outside of the Dragon
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, outside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour shortly after having splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, USA. Thomas is the first ...
Crew-2 after splashdown
From left: ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough, and JAXA astronaut Aki Hoshide inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour shortly after having splashed ...
Cristofoready
Italian ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti poses in the Cupola module of the International Space Station with two 100-day patches to mark her 200th day in space. In 2022, she will return to ...
Cosmic pearl
It can be hard to appreciate that a human-made, football-pitch-sized spacecraft is orbiting 400 km above our heads, but there it is. The jewel of human cooperation and ingenuity that is the ...