Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Greene At first glance, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image looks to be a simple spiral galaxy,…
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Credit: ESA–P. Horváth Carefully wrapped inside this donut-shaped bag is a 35-m diameter parachute that will endure a frenzied six-minute dive into the Martian atmosphere.…
Scientists from the German Aereospace Center (DLR), using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, have noticed an unusual ozone hole form over the Arctic. This…
Simulating the test flight of a hypersonic glider. Credit: ESA Simulating the test flight of a hypersonic glider, being developed through the international HEXAFLY-INT collaboration,…
A new call related to COVID-19 has been added to the Permanently Open Call, which is part of ESA’s Earth Observation Science for Society program.…
Here at NASA’s Plum Brook Station in Ohio, USA, Orion is being put into a thermal cage in preparation of getting its first feel of…
The city of Jeddah’s seaport on Saudi Arabia’s western coast is pictured in this image from the Kompsat-2 satellite. The second largest city in the…
This artist’s impression depicts a star being torn apart by an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH), surrounded by an accretion disc. This thin, rotating disc of…
Artist’s impression of the BepiColombo spacecraft in cruise configuration, with Mercury in the background. On its 7.2 year journey to the innermost planet, BepiColombo will…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Leonard This remarkable spiral galaxy, known as NGC 4651, may look serene and peaceful as it swirls in the vast,…
This multi-temporal image combines three radar acquisitions from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission taken around one month apart to show changes in crop and land conditions…
(Click for full view.) Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, I. Karachentsev NGC 4618 was discovered on April 9, 1787, by the German-British astronomer William Herschel, who…
An Orion spacecraft docked with the lunar outpost called the Gateway. The Gateway is the next structure to be launched by the partners of the…
(Click image for full view.) The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Kuwait in the Middle East. With a total area of around 17 800…
Panorama of the Main Control Room at ESOC, ESA’s European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany, taken in 2012. Credit: ESA/J. Mai, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO…
This image, using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, shows the nitrogen dioxide emissions over China from 7 to 16 March 2020. Credit: Contains modified…
The Foam-Coarsening experiment, developed by Airbus for ESA, is set to be activated this month but this image shows that the liquids held in cells…
Flexible, ultra-thin solar cell to deliver the best power to mass ratio for space missions. Credit: ESA–SJM Photography The European Space Agency (ESA) has backed…
In this image, captured on July 27, 2019, sea ice can be seen in the waterways of the Canadian Archipelago, as well as broken-up sea…
Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray space observatories, along with radio telescopes on ground, have spotted the aftermath of the most powerful explosion…