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,…

Milky Way Center (MeerKAT and Webb)

Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky…

ESA – Firing up HENON’s engine

Beneath this eerie green light and tendril-like cables sits a newly developed gridded ion engine thruster…

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…

ESA – Firing up HENON’s engine

Beneath this eerie green light and tendril-like cables sits a newly developed gridded ion engine thruster…