ESA – Ethiopian volcanic plume

The Hayli Gubbi volcano in northeast Ethiopia, believed to have been dormant for up to 12…

Solar fireworks caught on camera

Space weather alert! On 11 November 2025, an intense solar flare was observed from Earth, with…

Good to go – Let’s Smile (episode 4)

Smile is a brand-new space mission currently in the making. It will study how Earth responds to…

ESA – Flying for the Moon

How do you prepare for life on the Moon? Start with a flight that bends gravity.…

ESA – SOHO observes comet 3I/ATLAS

The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured a glimpse of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 15–26 October 2026.…

Finding star clusters in the Lost Galaxy

Today’s ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million light-years away…

Earth from Space: The Danakil Depression

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over one of Earth’s most extreme environments: the Danakil Depression…

ESA – The epic adventures of BepiColombo

Bepi, Mio and MTM’s adventures continue! What have they achieved on their extraordinary journey to Mercury,…

ESA – ESA’s Argonaut press conference

The press conference, at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, follows the signing of contracts…

Earth from Space: Ghostly lake

To celebrate Halloween, we bring you these spooky sights of Lake Carnegie in Australia, captured from…