Monitoring urban areas

Urban areas are a rapidly changing environment and concentration of the population is ever increasing in…

Rapidly rotating black hole accreting matter

ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s NuSTAR have detected a rapidly rotating supermassive black hole in the heart…

BepiColombo MPO being placed in Phenix thermal vacuum test facility

The Mercury Planetary Orbiter, part of ESA's BepiColombo mission to Mercury, placed in the Phenix thermal…

Chris Hadfield with Biolab

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield conducting routine maintenance on Biolab in Europe’s Columbus laboratory on…

Lidia Icardi: Electrical power systems engineer

Academic background: Lidia Icardi works on the Solar Orbiter project and talks about her tasks as…

Anne Pacros: Payload system engineer

Academic background series: Anne Pacros is a payload system engineer on the Solar Orbiter mission and…

Age-Raymond Riise: Ground Station Engineer

Academic background: Age-Raymond Riise is an electrical engineer and keeps the ESA tracking station network going.

Planetary nebula ESO 456-67

Planetary nebula ESO 456-67 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula is the product…

Earth from Space: Cotmeana

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. Southern central…

Sea-surface salinity and currents

Salinity data from SMOS show that warm, salty water being carried north by the Gulf Stream…