Frame from a movie captured by the SoloHI instrument on the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft of Comet Leonard on December 17-18, 2021. Credit: ESA/NASA/NRL/SoloHI Comet…
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Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope onboard, is seen in the final assembly building ahead of the planned roll to the…
[embedded content] ESA and NASA Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government…
Artist’s impression of the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), folded in the Ariane 5 rocket during launch from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Credit: ESA…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the open star cluster NGC 1755. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Milone, G. Gilmore The open star cluster NGC 1755…
A piercing tool built by ESA is set to open a Moon soil container from Apollo 17 that has gone untouched for nearly 50 years.…
Artist impression of an exoplanet system. Credit: ESA ESA and Airbus have signed a contract to move forward with the design and construction of the…
The world’s next generation cosmic observatory, the James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) is an orbiting infrared observatory that will…
Ahead of the upcoming Ariane 5 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Kourou – home to Europe’s…
ESA’s 4.5 m-diameter antenna located in Western Australia. Credit: D. Hamilton When NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent…
Valles Marineris, seen at an angle of 45 degrees to the surface in near-true color and with four times vertical exaggeration. The image covers an…
An image of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, taken with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument onboard Solar Orbiter. This particular image was taken…
Driving and walking rovers competed to survey a shadowy analog of the south polar lunar surface for useable resources during the inaugural ESA-ESRIC Space Resources…
Searching for exoplanetary systems. Credit: ESA–C. Carreau ESA’s trifecta of dedicated exoplanetAn exoplanet (or extrasolar planet) is a planet that is outside the Solar System,…
Artist’s impression of the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), folded in the Ariane 5 rocket during launch from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Credit: ESA…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the next of NASA’s Great Observatories; following in the line of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma-ray…
Mars Express relays data from Zhurong. Credit: ESA This November, ESA’s MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet…
This image shows comet Leonard streaming through the sky on the morning of December 7, 2021, taken by ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC), part…
The James Webb Space Telescope was fueled inside the payload preparation facility at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana ahead of its launch on Ariane 5.…
Using a series of ‘real’ and ‘fake’ flybys, ESA’s Mars Express has clarified a long-standing martian mystery: if and how Mars’ largest moon, Phobos, reflects…