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With Easter right around the corner, we take a look at four egg-shaped buildings visible from space as captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Credit:…
The AI developed by IIT researchers will analyzing satellite images in order to detect traces of hidden archaeological sites. Credit: ESA/IIT The Cultural Landscapes Scanner…
These images represent radar observations of asteroid 99942 Apophis on March 8, 9, and 10, 2021, as it made its last close approach before its…
The enormous Ever Given container ship, wedged in Egypt’s Suez Canal, is visible in new images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission. Credit: Contains modified…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Z. Levay This Picture of the Week revisits the Veil Nebula, a popular subject for Hubble images! This object was featured…
The Hyades star cluster is gradually merging with the background of stars in the Milky Way. The cluster is located 153 light years away and…
Credit: Julius-Maximilians-University What might look like a dangling hamster ball is actually a robotic sphere to explore the depths of lunar caves. Designed by a…
Scientists have discovered that glaciers in the Getz region of Antarctica are increasing in speed as they flow towards the ocean. This new research, which…
AFGL 5180, a beautiful stellar nursery located in the constellation of Gemini (The Twins), captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J.…
New radar images, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, show a 1270 sq km iceberg breaking free and moving away rapidly from the floating ice…
This image was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on July 29, 2019. Vancouver, visible at the top of the image, lies between Burrard Inlet,…
The ESA-Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, along with its parachute and back shell, heat shield, and descent stage, in…
Entering a lunar lava tube. The Moon’s surface is covered by millions of craters, but it also hosts hundreds of very steep-walled holes known as…
NGC4826 — a spiral galaxy located 17 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair) — captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.…
Satellite image of Italy’s Mount Etna, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on February 18, 2021, at 09:40 GMT. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data…
This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, captures the two Herbig-Haro objects cataloged as HH46 and HH47, spotted in the constellation of Vela…
The first true-color image generated using the OSIRIS orange (red), green and blue color filters. The image was acquired on February 24, 2007, at 19:28…
The tiny Valentine Island, visible in the top-left of the image, measures around 1.6 km in length and around 250 m wide. The island is…
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter took this image of the southeast wall of a small crater located a few hundred kilometers to the north of the…