Philae facing eternal hibernation

15 months after Philae made its historic landing on a comet, its legacy is enormous even…

The Unearthly Beauty of the Red Rectangle

Straight lines do not often crop up in space. Whenever they do, they seem somehow incongruous…

EDRS-A liftoff

The first laser node of the European Data Relay System lifted off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan atop…

Italy, Alps and Mediterranean

ESA astronaut Tim Peake posted this photo on his social media channels, commenting "Beautiful night pass…

A misbehaving spiral

Despite its unassuming appearance, the edge-on spiral galaxy captured in the left half of this NASA/ESA…

Sierra Leone River Estuary

Part of Sierra Leone in West Africa is pictured in this image the Sentinel-2A satellite captured…

EDRS-A launch highlights

The first laser node of the European Data Relay System was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan atop…

Earth from Space: Sierra Leone River Estuary

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. Ahead of…

The Didymos binary system

Animation calculated from real data showing the movement of Didymoon around the primary asteroid.

Going to space

Copernicus is the most ambitious Earth observation programme to date, and it is providing accurate, timely and…