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 ...

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 ...

The European Space Agency Columbus module—the cornerstone of Europe’s $7-billion investment in the International Space Station—was hoisted Nov. 1 from its checkout cell at the Kennedy Space Center and ...

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 ...