Animation of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter making a close pass of the Sun. Credit: ESA/Medialab The ESA/NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…
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Vigil warns Earth. Credit: ESA It’s the first mission of its kind, set to monitor our active and unpredictable Sun and help protect us from…
A view from the “Kimberley” formation on Mars taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover. The strata in the foreground dip towards the base of Mount Sharp,…
Hubble Space Telescope image of Herbig–Haro object HH34. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Nisini An energetic outburst from an infant star streaks across this image…
Earlier this year, the discovery of a potentially hazardous asteroid took astronomers on a roller coaster ride. On January 6, 2022, astronomers at the Mount…
For a few tense days this January, a roughly 70-meter asteroid became the riskiest observed in over a decade. Despite the Moon’s attempt to scupper…
Lake Victoria and Lake Turkana are featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission. These two large African lakes were included in a…
This false-color image, captured on February 12, 2022, by Landsat 9, has been processed using the satellite’s near-infrared channel. This channel is frequently used to…
It’s a funny thing about homing in on an asteroid and calculating its path, future position, and probability of impacting Earth – it will often…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrup Grumman Are you curious to know how a telescope works? Join ESA…
(Click image to see full infographic.) The universe is expanding, and that expansion stretches light traveling through space in a phenomenon known as cosmological redshift.…
Hot and cold beneath Tonga volcano. Credit: © Planetary Visions (ESA/Planetary Visions) The astonishing force of the Tonga volcanic eruption shocked the world, but the…
Landscape near Hooke Crater in Mars’ southern highlands captured by the CaSSIS camera onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) on February 1, 2021. Credit:…
This oblique perspective view of the Jovis Tholus shield volcano on Mars was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and color channels…
Solar Orbiter and SOHO’s view of a giant eruption – close up. Credit: Solar Orbiter/EUI and SOHO/LASCO teams, ESA & NASA The ESA/NASAEstablished in 1958,…
Hubble Space Telescope image of IC 2431, which appears to be a triple galaxy merger in progress, as well as a tumultuous mixture of star…
Hubble Space Telescope of Arp 282, an interacting galaxy pair that is composed of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 169 (bottom) and the galaxy IC 1559…
This image of Batura Glacier, in the upper Hunza Valley, in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, was captured on August 13, 2021, by the Copernicus…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar The dwarf galaxy NGC 1705 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This diminutive galaxy…
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020-21), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over northwest Lesotho – a…