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Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: Nalla, a female peregrine falcon, persuades other birds to nest away from our beautiful deep-space tracking dish To source

Space Science Image of the Week: ESA’s BepiColombo, a mission to explore planet Mercury, seen in a different light To source

Our week through the lens: 5-9 October 2015 To source

Satcoms are enabling smaller football clubs in Italy to broadcast their matches in high quality from 60 stadiums, via the Internet. To source

Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-1A image of the Azore Islands in Portugal, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme To source

How astronauts adapt to the stresses of living in space is helping researchers to pinpoint the causes of common disorders on Earth. From the brain’s point of view, living in space is very stressful. The signals from an astronaut’s body in space go haywire as they float in weightlessness. The inner ear reports that it […]

Join us Friday, 9 October, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-1A image of the Azore Islands in Portugal To source

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: NASA astronaut Terry Virst demonstrates how he took ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti’s picture in space To source

Technology image of the week: practical testing of the navigation camera planned to guide ESA’s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission around its double-asteroid target To source

Space Invader art has arrived at ESA’s Earth observation centre in Italy To source

Snapshots from the Sunday 4 October 2015 Open Day at ESA’s technical heart, the most popular one yet To source

Space Science Image of the Week: ESA’s SMART-1 captures Moon’s pockmarked pole with stunning clarity To source

Our week through the lens: 28 September – 2 October 2015 To source