Space timelapse over Brazil

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst recorded this timelapse from the International Space Station as it flew over Brazil…

Droplets of star formation and two merging galaxies in SDSS J1531+3414

The two galaxies have been found to be merging into one and a "chain" of young…

Exploding blue supergiant star

This artist’s impression depicts a region of an exploding blue supergiant. These stars are quite rare…

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Guanabara Bay in southeast Brazil is pictured in this image from the Sentinel-1A satellite. The city…

Earth from Space: Rio

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. In the one-hundred-eleventh…

ATV-5 George Lemaître Mission VNR

ATV-5 is the last in the series to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. The…

ATV-5: Georges Lemaître, Monseigneur Big Bang

With ATV-5 George Lemaitre soon to be launched to the ISS from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, ESA…

ATV-5 Heritage

The fifth and last Automated Transfer Vehicle, ATV-5 , is scheduled to lift off at 01h43…

A galaxy with a glowing heart

This view, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a nearby spiral galaxy known as…

Comet on 4 July 2014

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken by the narrow angle camera of Rosetta’s scientific imaging system, OSIRIS, on 4…