This crystal of iron pyrite, just four hundredths of a millimeter in size, could function as the light absorbing layer of a tiny solar cell…
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The jewel of human cooperation and ingenuity that is the International Space Station shines brightly in this image captured by ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet from…
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Tarawa Atoll in the Republic of Kiribati – a remote Pacific nation threatened by rising seas. The…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 in the constellation Fornax. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team In…
Credit: ESA/IPEV/PNRA-N.Smith Applications are now open for the role of ESA-sponsored research medical doctor at Concordia research station in Antarctica for the 2023 winter over…
Image of Kainji Lake, a reservoir on the Niger River in western Nigeria, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on November 11, 2020. Credit: Contains…
Artist’s impression of Solar Orbiter making a flyby at Earth. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab The chance that ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft will encounter space debris during…
Artist impression of Solar Orbiter’s Earth flyby through the two clouds of space debris in Low Earth Orbit and Geostationary orbit. Credit: ESA Solar Orbiter…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Wuyts This star- and galaxy-studded image was captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), using data that were collected…
Astronomers detected the temporary dimming of X-rays from a system where a massive star is in orbit around a neutron star or black hole (shown…
The artist impressions depicted in this montage imagine some of the different types of exoplanets and their host stars that might be studied by Cheops.…
October 9, 2018 The James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) is an orbiting infrared observatory that will complement and extend…
Hubble Space Telescope edge-on view of the majestic spiral galaxy UGC 11537. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Seth This astronomical portrait from the NASAEstablished in…
Image of Cancún, Mexico captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on April 16, 2021. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021), processed by ESA, CC…
As part of the ESA–NASA Arctic Methane and Permafrost Challenge, new research has revealed that rapidly thawing Arctic permafrost has the potential to release antibiotic…
According to a paper published in Nature Geoscience, the influence of human-induced climate change is evident in the fact that lake-water temperatures are rising in…
[embedded content] After its arrival at Pariacabo harbor in French Guiana on October 12, 2021, the James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST…
[embedded content] Glaciers across the globe have lost over nine trillion tonnes of ice in half a century. How will glaciers look over the coming…
The Shetland Islands, an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, are featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021),…
Artist impression of BepiColombo flying by Mercury. The spacecraft makes nine gravity assist maneuvers (one of Earth, two of Venus and six of Mercury) before…