A composite of Comet Leonard images captured December 15-16, 2021, in ultraviolet light by the Metis instrument onboard the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft. The comet…
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A-68A’s position on December 17, 2020. Credit: British Antarctic Survey/ESA In July 2017, a giant iceberg, named A-68, snapped off Antarctica’s Larsen-C ice shelf and…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey, DOE, FNAL, DECam, CTIO, NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, ESOAcknowledgement: J. Schmidt The subject of this image is a group…
Using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission, the image shows the huge plume of sulfur dioxide on January 18, 2022, over Australia, more than 7000…
Artist impression of planet WASP-103b and its host star. Credit: ESA ESA’s exoplanet An exoplanet (or extrasolar planet) is a planet that is outside the…
A long-awaited moment in the ExoMars mission will be when ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover leaves the landing platform, Kazachok, and drives onto the martian soil…
Webb Space Telescope adjusting orientation. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Webb’s science goals cover a very broad range of themes, and will tackle many…
Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite image of Kangerlussuaq Glacier, Greenland This false-color image shows visible changes on the ground and sea surface between three different acquisition dates.…
ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer inside the seven-windowed cupola. Credit: NASA/ESA–M.Maurer Another year passes, and our muscles, bones, eyes, and ears deteriorate as we age –…
This illustration depicts NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) in the Block 1 cargo configuration as it leaves Earth. Credit: NASA Astronomers ended 2021 on a…
Webb Space Telescope Primary Mirror Deployment. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab On January 8, the James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb…
Galaxy NGC 976 imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Jones, A. Riess et al. The lazily winding spiral arms of…
The magnetic field and electric currents in and around Earth generate complex forces that have immeasurable impact on every day life. The field can be…
A vision of a future Moon base that could be produced and maintained using 3D printing. Credit: RegoLight, visualisation: Liquifer Systems Group, 2018 Humanity is…
[embedded content] We’ve said goodbye to 2021, a year in which ESA once more succeeded in continuing operations in a challenging global situation, and creating…
Hubble Space Telescope image of spiral galaxy NGC 105. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Jones, A. Riess et al., Acknowledgement: R. Colombari This image from…
Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Like a sprinkle of powdered sugar on a rich red velvet cake, this scene from the ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars Trace…
[embedded content]The James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) is an orbiting infrared observatory that will complement and extend the discoveries…
Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 image of spiral galaxy UGC 9391. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al. The lonely spiral galaxy…
The James Webb Space Telescope lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, at 13:20 CET on December 25, 2021,…