This image, acquired on August 11 by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission, shows Eureka in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Eureka is inside the Arctic Circle,…
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Europe’s Helicon Plasma Thruster offers plasma propulsion for small satellites. Credit: SENER A test firing of Europe’s Helicon Plasma Thruster, developed with ESA by SENER in…
On September 2 2020, Vega flight VV16 lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana to progressively deliver 53 light satellites into Sun-synchronous orbits at…
Artist’s view of Vega VV16 with the Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) dispenser and SAT-AIS. Visible are the Zefiro-9 upper stage, the Attitude Vernier Upper…
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a galaxy named NGC 2188. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Tully The blue and orange stars of the faint…
The Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer (ITMS) imaged here is a part of the Exospheric Mass Spectrometer (EMS) instrument that will detect lunar volatiles from both…
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope actually depicts a small section of the Cygnus supernova blast wave, located around 2400 light-years away. Credit:…
New observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star Betelgeuse was most likely caused by an immense…
This spectacular image of galaxy NGC 2442 was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Smartt et al. This image…
This image of Flinders Ranges, South Australia, was captured on December 31, 2019, by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission – a two-satellite mission to supply the…
On August 15, 2020, Ariane 5 flight VA253 lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana and delivered two telecom satellites Galaxy-30 and BSAT-4B, and…
Credit: ESA/IPEV/PNRA–S. Thoolen After four months of darkness, the Sun finally rises on August 11, 2020, at Concordia research station in Antarctica. The crew is…
A Perseid meteor captured by the LIC1 camera of the Canary Long-Baseline Observatory (CILBO) on Tenerife in the early hours of 12 August 2020. The…
NASA, ESA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) worked recently to create the COVID-19 Earth Observation Dashboard, a platform that combines a wealth of…
The Light Detection and Ranging instrument, or LIDAR, is a remote sensing technique that uses light to study an object. Credit: ESA/IPEV/PNRA–S. Thoolen In a…
A visible green laser shone from ESA’s Optical Ground Station (OGS). Part of Teide Observatory, the OGS located 2400 m above sea level on the…
Emperor penguins live in Antarctica, which is not only remote and inaccessible, but temperatures can drop to –50°C. Studying penguin colonies is therefore extremely difficult.…
On September 18, 2017, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli shot this image from the International Space Station showing the Moon rising above the Earth’s horizon together…
A new set of images captured this spring by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) on the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter shows…
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s Alpha mission patch. Designed by ESA’s graphic artists, the Alpha patch features a rocket launch – the most dramatic moment in…