ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano

Italian ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano completed his first mission to the International Space Station in 2013.…

Solar Orbiter array deployment

ESA’s Solar Orbiter undergoing a solar array deployment test at the IABG facilities in Ottobrunn, Germany…

Cosmic fireworks in ultraviolet

Telescopes, including Hubble, have monitored the Eta Carinae star system for more than two decades. It…

Trillions of stars

This Hubble Picture of the Week shows the spiral galaxy Messier 98, which is located about 45 million light-years away…

Earth from space: Gulf of Taranto

In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over the…

Proba-2’s predicted view of 2 July eclipse

On 2 July 2019, a total solar eclipse will be visible from the South Pacific, falling…

Perspective view of Aurorae Chaos

This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows Aurorae Chaos, a large area of chaotic terrain located…

Total solar eclipse

Time-lapse video of the total eclipse of the Sun seen from Casper, Wyoming (US), on 21…

Hera: ESA’s planetary defence mission

Hera will show us things we’ve never seen before. Astrophysicist and and Queen guitarist Brian May…

Raikoke spits ash

An unexpected and powerful eruption started at Raikoke volcano in the Kuril Islands on 21 June…