Credit: Reaktor Space Lab Around the same size as two big Harry Potter paperbacks, ESA’s Sun-watching Sunstorm CubeSat has produced its first solar X-ray spectrum, coming just over…
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Hubble Space Telescope image of a sparkling starfield that contains the globular cluster ESO 520-21 (also known as Palomar 6). Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R.…
ESA’s Rosalind Franklin twin rover on Earth has drilled down and extracted samples 1.7 meters into the ground – much deeper than any other martian…
Maharloo Lake, a seasonal salt lake in Iran, is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data…
[embedded content] Timelapse video made during ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s second mission to the International Space Station, “Alpha”. The camera is setup to take pictures…
While wildfires are a natural part of California’s landscape, a severe drought, coupled with extreme temperatures, have sustained several major fires for much of August.…
Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, A. Nota, C. Britt This comparison view shows puffing dust bubbles and an erupting gas shell — the final acts of…
Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an…
To investigate the physics underpinning white dwarf evolution, astronomers compared cooling white dwarfs in two massive collections of stars: the globular clusters M3 and M13.…
Hubble Space Telescope image of globular cluster NGC 6717. Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, A. Sarajedini This star-studded image from the NASAEstablished in 1958, the National…
Artist’s concept of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, and Northrop Grumman The NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)…
Herbig–Haro object named HH111, captured by Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Nisini This striking image features a relatively…
Open cluster NGC 2164 in the Large Magellanic Cloud as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Kalirai, A. Milone This…
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its second flyby of Venus on 19 August 2021, coming within 552 km of the planet at 13:51:54 UTC for…
Vega liftoff on flight VV19. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace-JM Guillon Europe’s Vega has delivered Pléiades Neo-4 and four auxiliary payloads, SunStorm, RadCube and LEDSAT developed through ESA,…
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its second flyby of Venus on August 9, 2021, coming within 552 km of the planet at 13:51:54 UTC for…
Hubble Space Telescope image of spiral galaxy NGC 1385, located 68 million light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Fornax. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J.…
Meet bag, bottle, and straw, three bits of plastic left on the beach. They are only small, but they are heading into the ocean, where…
Image captured by the BepiColombo mission on August 10, 2021, as the spacecraft passed Venus. Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo…
The International Space Station Expedition 65 crew recorded themselves on a day off after a long week of work having some weightless fun. From Earth…