Mixing realities for lunar exploration

Anyone who has tried virtual reality (VR) applications knows about its many possibilities: from immersive video…

ESA – An ancient witness

The globular cluster NGC 2005, featured in this Hubble Picture of the Week, is not unusual in and of…

Earth from Space: Heel of Italy

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over a section of Italy’s heel in the southern part…

ESA – Eclipse-making double-satellite Proba-3

Proba-3 is ESA’s – and the world’s – first precision formation flying mission. A pair of…

Drone test of planetary landing radar

This drone took to the sky over Finland to assess the suitability of one particular terrestrial…

Space Team Europe for Ariane 6: launch pad operations are GO

With the transfer and standing up of Ariane 6’s central core and the integration of its…

ESA – First Plato camera

The activities to integrate Plato’s cameras have started in OHB’s Space Centre & Optics facility in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.…

ESA – Transients in JADES field

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope is giving scientists their first detailed glimpse of supernovae from…

Symbiotic star Mira HM Sge

This is a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the symbiotic star Mira HM Sge. Located…

Mars Express view of frost on Olympus Mons

This image shows Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano not only on Mars but in the entire…