Landing site J in Rosetta’s NavCam – 21 September

Rosetta's navigation camera (NAVCAM) took this image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 21 September, from a distance…

Attica peninsula, Greece

Greece’s Attica peninsula, with the capital and largest city of Athens appearing bright white near the…

Comet on 24 September – NavCam

Four-image NAVCAM mosaic of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, using images taken on 24 September 2014 when Rosetta was…

Comet on 21 September – NavCam

Single frame (and cropped) NAVCAM image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 21 September 2014. Read more about…

Spacewalk training

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, Expedition 42/43 flight engineer,  dons a training version of her Extravehicular Mobility…

Dwarf galaxy DDO 68

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic oddity, dwarf galaxy DDO 68.…

Flash and splash

Observing large but perfectly shaped bubbles in weightlessness and recording them with a high-speed camera is…

Flash and splash

Observing large but perfectly shaped bubbles in weightlessness and recording them with a high-speed camera is…

GOCE senses changing gravity

The animation, based on measurements from ESA’s GOCE satellite and the NASA–German Grace mission, shows that…

ESA Euronews: Close encounters with Venus

Venus is our mysterious neighbour, a strange world where the Sun rises in the west and…