Europe’s Columbus laboratory has been successfully launched into space towards its eventual home on the International Space Station (ISS). The 10-tonne Columbus module took off on board the space ...

NASA is celebrating the arrival of an important component to the International Space Station, the Columbus research laboratory. Columbus is the European Space Agency’s primary contribution to the ...

Columbus, Europe's contribution to the ISS, celebrates its 10th anniversary The space laboratory enables multidisciplinary research in microgravity 161 ESA experiments have so far been carried out in ...

In December 2006, experts from ESA and partner organisations met to review Columbus launch preparations. The successful review was a significant milestone for the launch of the Agency’s science module ...

German astronaut Hans Schlegel and France's Leopold Eyharts hope to begin activating the Columbus laboratory module on the International Space Station before the end of the year, bolting the ...

Thomas Pesquet: This is what Columbus looks like at night now that all our experiments have arrived! The pink light is not for our evening mood, it’s for a plant growth experiment, as it improves the ...

An Irish company has developed core technology for the operation of the European Space Agency’s Columbus Module that is due to take off from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral tonight at ...

When the Shuttle Atlantis launches tomorrow, it will be carrying with it an important addition to the International Space Station (ISS): the Columbus laboratory. The module is a scientific research ...