<img src="http://www.esa.int/images/frankdemo1_small,0.jpg" align="right" /> In space, many things work differently, but not always. Take the movement of liquid in fine tubes. Gravity has something to do with this capillary action, but what? Students using ESA’s 'Take Your Classroom into Space' kit can now find out.

<img src="http://www.esa.int/images/DSC_3065,3.JPG" align="right" /> On Friday, Esa Alanen and family visited the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, as guests of ESA, to say thanks for relinquishing the Twitter name www.twitter.com/esa.

<img src="http://www.esa.int/images/new_eduspace_s.jpg" align="right" /> For the past 12 years, ESA’s Eduspace website has been a window on the world for secondary students and teachers. Now the website has been completely redesigned and updated, so that it provides an even more valuable introduction to Earth observation and its applications.

<img src="http://www.esa.int/images/Animation-C28-9B-Icebergs-Final_f1_S.gif" align="right" /> This animation, made up of eight Envisat radar images, shows the 97-km long B-9B iceberg (right) ramming into the Mertz Glacier Tongue in Eastern Antarctica in early February. The collision caused a chunk of the glacier’s tongue to snap off, giving birth to another iceberg nearly as large as B-9B.

<img src="http://www.esa.int/images/_SCO8329_small,0.jpg" align="right" /> For years, ESA has been bringing space technologies down to Earth through its Technology Transfer Programme and Business Incubation initiatives. Now, the Agency will strengthen these initiatives by supporting new businesses using space innovations through a dedicated venture capital fund.

<img src="http://www.esa.int/images/ss_S,863.jpg" align="right" /> The biggest engineering project ever built by humankind is flying 400 kilometres overhead. The International Space Station has been 12 years in the making, and it's almost complete. And its unique collection of laboratories up there is already giving scientists a new insight into daily life down here. Strap yourselves in for a trip to the ISS, in this edition of Space. <p> <div style="float:right"><a href="http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Euronews/SEMBN57K56G_0.html" target="_blank" style="color:#ff0000;">Watch Online</a></div>

<img src="http://www.esa.int/images/Image24_417-20081008-5889-6-src-03-PhobosSeries_S.jpg" align="right" /> Mars Express encountered Phobos last night, smoothly skimming past at just 67 km, the closest any manmade object has ever approached Mars’ enigmatic moon. The data collected could help unlock the origin of not just Phobos but other ‘second generation’ moons.