On 20th July 2019, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will be launched to the International Space Station…
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Preparing for the Beyond mission
On 20 July 2019, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will be launched to the International Space Station…
X-ray serendipity
The purple lines and blotches scattered across this image show something incredible: all of the X-ray sources…
Space Bites: How to Survive on an Extraterrestrial Planet | Lucie Poulet
Plans for human space exploration in the next decades are to leave Earth orbit and go…
Solar eclipse in context
A composite of space- and ground-based observations gathered at the time of the solar eclipse on…
In bloom
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week shows bright, colourful pockets of star formation blooming like roses…
Earth from space: Irminger Sea ice swirl
In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over fragments…
ESA’s wandering eye
Sitting 2400 m above sea level on the volcanic island of Tenerife, Spain, ESA’s Optical Ground…
Meet SpaceBok
Astronauts on the Moon found themselves hopping around, rather than simply walking. Switzerland’s SpaceBok planetary exploration…
Corona details
This image – combined of many exposures – captures ‘totality’ during the 2 July 2019 total…