Firefly Sparkle Galaxy Inset (NIRCam Image)

For the first time, astronomers have identified a still-forming galaxy that weighs about the same as…

Up and away

A novel sensor that simulates the measurements that would be taken by one of the proposed…

Space design chamber made in LEGO

A key location in space engineering, recreated using LEGO: this is a copy in miniature of…

ESA – Generating 3D cloud maps

An international team of scientists has found an innovative way of applying artificial intelligence to satellite…

Space elf on the shelf

A mischievous elf is caught hiding a radiation experiment in a shelf on the International Space…

ESA Astronaut Reserve at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre

The first half of the ESA Astronaut Reserve in the training hall at the European Astronaut…

ESA – The Netherlands from Sentinel-1C

Less than a week after its launch, the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite has delivered its first radar…

Relive Sentinel-1C on Vega-C launch

The third Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite, Sentinel-1C, launched aboard a Vega-C rocket, flight VV25, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 5 December 2024 at 22:20 CET (18:20 local time). Sentinel-1C extends…

ESA – Methane concentrations near Cheltenham

This sequence of images shows the methane concentrations near Cheltenham, England, from 27 March, 20 April…

Hubble celebrates a decade of tracking the outer planets

From 2014 to 2024, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been studying the outer planets under…