ESA – Mandalay rupture

The powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar on March 28 has claimed thousands of lives…

Media briefing: Europe’s top experts address the growing threat of space debris

Journalists were invited to attend a high-level media briefing in Bonn, Germany, on Tuesday, 1 April…

ESA Space HPC – ESA’s New Supercomputer

ESA Space HPC is the European Space Agency’s new high-performance computing platform designed to meet the…

Webb snaps photographs of Asteroid 2024 YR4

This image shows Webb’s recent observation of the asteroid 2024 YR4 using both its Near-Infrared Camera…

ESA – Up for space

Two space explorers met recently at ESA’s Columbus Control Centre in Germany – one returning from…

ESA – Thwaites Glacier from Sentinel-1

Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission on 2 March 2024. The…

Antarctic subglacial lakes threaten ice sheet stability

There is a series of lakes beneath Thwaites Glacier, part of an extensive network of meltwater…

A chance alignment in Lupus

The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. NGC…

20 years of Uranus observations

The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the Sun tipped on its side, is a weird…

Neptune Auroras (Hubble and Webb Image)

At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. At the right,…