The best Milky Way map, by Gaia (edge-on)

This is a new artist’s impression of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from…

The best Milky Way animation, by Gaia

This is a new artist’s animation of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from…

BepiColombo’s sixth Mercury flyby: the movie

Fly over Mercury with BepiColombo for the final time during the mission’s epic expedition around the…

Little Red Dots (NIRCam Image)

Soon after the start of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s science operations, astronomers noticed something…

Land burned by Palisades wildfire

This pair of Copernicus Sentinel-2 images highlights the vast area impacted by one of the wildfires…

Webb watches carbon-rich dust shells form, expand in star system

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have identified two stars responsible for generating carbon-rich…

ESA – Quasar J0742+2704

Quasar J0742+2704 (center) became the subject of astronomers’ interest after it was discovered to have a…

ESA astronaut reserve training

Members of the ESA Astronaut Reserve participate in a two-month intensive training experience at the European…

ESA Director General’s Annual Press Briefing

Watch the replay of ESA’s start-of-the-year press briefing looking ahead to 2025.   Download the presentation…

Giant black hole gobbling up doomed white dwarf star

In this artist’s impression, matter is stripped from a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion…