The James Webb Space Telescope has launched! But it was a very long road to get to this point, and we’ve been following the progress for a decade!

Jonathan Homan, Project Manager for Webb's Chamber A Testing, talks about how the James Webb Space Telescope has been designed, built, and tested, especially in the vacuum chamber here at the Johnson Space Center. He also describes what...

Ariane 5 part 6/8: This video provides a behind-the-scenes look at the complex process of building and launching an Ariane 5 rocket. From the assembly of various parts across different countries to the final rocket assembly in French...

GOLD is a new NASA science mission that launches in January 2018 to explore Earth’s interface to space!



GOLD stands for Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk. It will inspect the dynamic region of near-Earth space...

After years of preparation and anticipation, it’s time to send the world’s most powerful telescope to space. Ariane 5 rocket expert Rudi Albat (ESA) takes you through launch day and describes why the launcher that will carry Webb to its...

MOT 1940: FRENCH GUIANA (Iles du Salut): Male official sitting at desk, signing papers (warden?), guard escorting prisoner, exile to prison gate, prisoner walking up sirt road. (Must serve time in Guiana, not allowed leave) French penal...

Ariane 5 part 3/8: The video provides a behind-the-scenes look at the assembly process of the Ariane rocket, which has become a reliable workhorse in commercial rocketry. It highlights the precision and complexity involved in building...

The first in EU's series of earth-monitoring satellites launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana on Thursday evening, the European Space Agency said. Sentinel-1A is launched to a height of 700 km above earth where it orbit...

The rocket is crucial for giving Europe independent access to space, and reducing its reliance on Elon Musk's SpaceX, and will help the continent build resilience against the climate crisis.

Euronews had a unique chance to visit the Avio rocket factory, situated in Colleferro, just south of Rome, Italy, where engineers are lovingly crafting the next generation of...

The European Space Agency (ESA), Arianespace, and French space agency CNES are in the final stretch of preparations for Ariane 6's inaugural launch.

Final checks are under way for the launch of the largest and most powerful telescope ever built.

A researcher holds a giant leech in his hand.

A leech slinks along a man's leg.

A swollen leech slithers off a man's hairy, bloody leg.

A leech moves over a man's submerged leg that is wrapped in webbing.

A researcher places a giant leech on his leg.

A giant leech crawls on a researcher's leg.

A giant leech crawls along a researcher's leg.

A leech moves under water over a man's toes.

A large leech slithers over a man's arm.

A giant leech explores a researcher's hand.

A large leech sucks blood from a man's arm.

A finger pokes at a leech as it crawls across skin.