ExoMars observing water in the Martian atmosphere. Credit: ESA Sea salt embedded in the dusty surface of Mars and lofted into the planet’s atmosphere has…
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Portrait of M1-63, a beautiful example of a bipolar planetary nebula located in the constellation of Scutum, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble…
As this winter’s polar vortex currently sends extreme icy blasts of Arctic weather to some parts of the northern hemisphere such as the northeast of…
Mars Express view of Terra Sabaea and Arabia Terra. This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows a beautiful slice of the Red Planet from the…
In the image pictured here, captured on June 14, 2019, high concentrations of algae can be seen around 130 km off Hokkaido Island, the second…
Galaxy UGC 3885 captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Walsh A bright foreground star isn’t enough to distract from…
Lake Titicaca imaged by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Lake Titicaca is a designated Ramsar Site of International Importance, as the waters of Titicaca are essential…
This is an artist’s impression of the TOI-178 planetary system, which was revealed by ESA’s exoplanet watcher Cheops. The system consists of six exoplanets, five…
A research team – the first to carry out a survey of global ice loss using satellite data – has discovered that the rate at…
Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The CaSSIS camera onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has captured its 20,000th image of Mars! The image, taken…
Dark clouds, the smell of rain on a hot sidewalk, the flashes of intense light followed by a loud crackling and then a low, rolling…
Iodine thruster used to change the orbit of a small satellite for the first time ever. Credit: ThrustMe For the first time ever, a telecommunications…
Planetary nebula ESO 455-10 captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Stanghellini The lives of planetary nebulae are often chaotic, from…
(Click image for full view.) Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Sardinia, the second-largest island in the…
Galaxy NGC 4535, a barred spiral galaxy located some 54 million light years from Earth in the constellation Virgo, as imaged by the Hubble Space…
Did you know that in microgravity we are preparing one of the most promising fuels for the future? Microgravity is helping to find answers and…
Using information from ESA’s Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have made a discovery about how energy generated by electrically-charged particles in the solar wind flows into…
This image, also featured on the Earth from Space video program, was captured on January 12, 2020 by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission – a two-satellite…
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The heavy snowfall that hit Spain a few days ago still…
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on January 11, 2021, at…