Astronaut David A. Wolf, mission specialist, his feet securely planted in a restraint device on the end of the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS)…
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Morbihan, France, as captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. The Gulf of Morbihan is visible in the center of the image. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus…
Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Baum & C. O’Dea (RIT), R. Perley & W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) An X-ray telescope designed…
Hubble Space Telescope observation of galaxy cluster Abell 3827. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Massey This detailed image features Abell 3827, a galaxy cluster that…
The shaded regions in this image show where the (fictional) impact is most likely to occur. There is a 99% chance the impact will be…
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spits fire as it lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spits fire as it lifts off…
Hubble Space Telescope image of PN G054.2-03.4, also known as the Necklace Nebula. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll The interaction of two doomed stars…
The second Earth observation Scout mission, HydroGNSS, will provide measurements of key hydrological climate variables, including soil moisture, freeze–thaw state over permafrost, inundation and wetlands,…
One of the most comprehensive pictures of our changing planet is now available to the public. Thanks to the close collaboration between Google Earth, ESA,…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4603, which lies over 100 million light-years away in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur). Credit:…
Cape Canaveral is a cape and city in Brevard County, in east-central Florida. The cape is separated from the mainland by the Banana River, Merritt…
False-color image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on April 13, 2021, shows the aftermath of the explosive eruption that took place on April 9,…
Due to launch together in 2023, the two satellites making up Proba-3 will fly in precise formation to form an external coronagraph in space, one…
On April 20, 2021, ESA will host the 8th European Conference on Space Debris from Darmstadt, in Germany. Scientists, engineers, industry experts, and policymakers will…
This image, captured on April 2, 2021, by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, shows the latest activity in Italy’s Mount Etna. The image has been processed…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2813 (also known as ACO 2813). Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Coe This extraordinary image from…
This animation is an artist’s impression of the exoplanet GJ 1132 b. Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Hurt (IPAC/Caltech) For the first time, scientists using…
The James Webb Space Telescope is a space observatory to see further into the Universe than ever before. It is designed to answer outstanding questions…
ESAIL tracks ships worldwide by detecting messages that ships radio-broadcast with their automatic identification systems, enabling them to be identified even when far out to…
With Easter right around the corner, we take a look at four egg-shaped buildings visible from space as captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Credit:…