Rosetta’s moment in the Sun

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has now passed perihelion (its closest distance to the Sun) and is now spending…

Test mirror segments for the James Webb Space Telescope

The Andromeda galaxy is one of the most distant objects that we can see in the…

Aurora at Concordia

ESA-sponsored medical doctor Beth Healey shared this image on Twitter, commenting: "We enjoyed a small aurora…

Meeting the press

Having passed their final exams last week and following their official certification for spaceflight, the prime…

A mess of stars

Bursts of pink and red, dark lanes of mottled cosmic dust, and a bright scattering of…

Approaching perihelion

This series of images of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko was captured by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 12…

Comet at perihelion

This single frame Rosetta navigation camera image was acquired at 01:04 GMT on 13 August 2015, just…

Boulder flying by comet

This sequence of images, taken with Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 30 July 2015, show a…

Approaching perihelion

This series of images of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko was captured by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 12…

Flooded Myanmar

Since mid-July, more than a million people have been severely affected by monsoon floods and landslides…