Ciudad Juarez and El Paso

The Mexican-American border separates the cities of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico with El Paso in Texas, USA.…

Rosetta truck hits the road

In May, as ESA’s comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft begins a series of manoeuvres to bring it closer…

Cosmic lens MACS J1720+35 helps Hubble to find a distant supernova

The heart of a vast cluster of galaxies called MACSJ1720+35 is shown in this image, taken…

Richat structure, Mauritania

A giant, geological wonder in the Sahara Desert of Mauritania is pictured in this satellite image.…

Earth from Space: Desert bullseye

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. Discover a giant…

Proba-2 views partial eclipse

ESA's Proba-2 Sun-watcher saw Australia's 29 April 2014 partial solar eclipse from orbit - footage captured…

Telerobotic robot hand

As engineer Manuel Aiple moves his gauntleted hand, the robotic hand a few metres away in…

A hungry starburst galaxy

This new Hubble picture is the sharpest ever image of the core of spiral galaxy Messier…

Galileo unboxed

The third Galileo Full Operational Capability (FOC) satellite being unboxed at the ESTEC Test Centre in…

Vega flight VV03

The third launch by Europe’s new small launcher, Vega, delivered Kazakhstan’s KazEOSat-1(DZZ-HR) satellite for high-resolution Earth observation into its planned…