This image shows a region of space called LHA 120-N150. It is a substructure of the gigantic Tarantula Nebula. The latter is the largest known…
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BepiColombo, an ESA mission in cooperation with Japan, will explore Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun. Credit: ESA Listen to the sound of BepiColombo’s…
With hundreds of satellites launched every year, in-space collisions and the creation of fast-moving fragments of space debris – or ‘space junk’ – are becoming…
Green algae blooms swirling around the Baltic Sea as seen from space via the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed…
A timelapse showing global observations made with Proba-V’s Vegetation instrument from September 2018 to September 2019, created through the Terrascope open source Earth observation platform.…
The eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano in 2018 was one of the most destructive in this volcano’s recorded history. Why this happened has remained a…
To the human eye, Mercury may resemble a dull, grey orb but this enhanced-color image from NASA’s Messenger probe, tells a completely different story. Swathes…
Exposure animation for asteroid 2020 HS7 as observed by the Tautenburg Observatory on April 28, 2020, a few hours after the Pan-STARRS project reported the…
This image shows a sample of abnormal methane concentrations over 2019. The size and color of the circles indicate the size and intensity of the…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al. In the forests of the night lies a barred spiral galaxy called NGC 3583, imaged here by…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the sharpest view yet of the breakup of Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS). The telescope resolved roughly…
While the COVID-19 virus pandemic is forcing everybody to stay at home, we bring you these beautiful views from space of the Dutch tulip fields…
These images, using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, show the average nitrogen dioxide concentrations from January 1 to March 24, 2020, and March 25…
Data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an expanding cloud of dust produced in a collision between two large bodies orbiting the bright…
Romain Charles, ESA astronaut support engineer for Mars 500, captured through a door. Credit: ESA – Mars500 In these times of confinement, ESA astronaut support…
Solar-powered hand sanitization unit in use. Credit: SunCrafter A start-up company that has repurposed upcycled solar cells to generate ultraviolet light to disinfect people’s hands…
An outbreak of wildfires recently threatening the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine. This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, acquired on April 12, 2020, has…
These images, using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, show the average nitrogen dioxide concentrations from March 13 to April 13, 2020, compared to the…
Landscape on Mars taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover after crossing a dune. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech If you could bring something back from Mars to Earth, what…
In this image, captured on February 22, 2019, the river cuts from left to right in the image before plunging over Victoria Falls – visible…