Multiwavelength solar eclipse activity

This animated gallery depicts solar activity during the day of the solar eclipse on 3 November…

Multiwavelength solar eclipse activity

This animated gallery depicts solar activity during the day of the solar eclipse on 3 November…

Filling of the Gaia spacecraft fuel tanks

Filling of the Gaia spacecraft fuel tanks at the Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. A…

How Rosetta wakes up from deep space hibernation

Visualisation of how the Rosetta spacecraft wakes up from deep space hibernation, 673 million kilometres from…

Media briefing: Rosetta wake-up and the year ahead

On 20 January 2014, after 957 days of hibernation in deep space, ESA’s comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft…

A members-only galaxy club

This new Hubble image shows a handful of galaxies in the constellation of Eridanus (The River).…

Placing Gaia in the payload transport container (CCU3)

Gaia in the S1B building, Centre Spatial Guyanais, Kourou, French Guiana.

Mars 360: the north pole

Enjoy views of the martian north pole from all angles in this new animation from ESA’s…

Liège, Belgium

Seen from the International Space Station at night Liège, or Luik in Flemish, lights up like…

Boca do Acre, Brazil

This Envisat radar image was acquired over the city of Boca do Acre in western Brazil.…