Hailing Hertz

Technology image of the week: selected after a worldwide competition, the new name of ESA’s recently…

Renaming ESA’s antenna test chamber

Selected after a worldwide competition, the new name of ESA’s recently refitted Compact Payload Test Range…

Sea-level detail from CryoSat

Detail of sea-surface topography: red represents higher sea levels while blue areas are lower. The ‘strips’…

Station over Darmstadt

This image is a composite of nine photos taken 5–10 minutes after midnight on 6–7 June…

Herschel’s population of trans-Neptunian objects

ESA’s Herschel space observatory has observed 132 of the known 1400 cold worlds that inhabit a…

Cosmic collision in the Bullet Group

A composite view of the Bullet Group reveals its constituents and their peculiar arrangement. The hot…

Mount Kenya

Mount Kenya, the second-highest mountain in Africa, is pictured in this image from Japan’s ALOS satellite…

Earth from Space: Mount Kenya

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

Solar eruption

A class M1.3 flare can be observed from the Central-East active region on 3 June 2014…

Main Rosetta burn

Rosetta is now closing its target: comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and key manoeuvres have been done recently to…