SOHO views X-class solar flare

The Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) resulting from the big X-class solar flare on 10 June 2014…

Southwestern coast of Greenland

On the southwestern coast of Greenland, multiple ice streams that drain the Greenland ice sheet are…

Astronauts to watch World Cup from Space Station

As fans around the world tune in watch the World Cup in Brazil, a few fans…

Golden rings of star formation

Taking centre stage in this new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a galaxy known as…

Hailing Hertz

Technology image of the week: selected after a worldwide competition, the new name of ESA’s recently…

Hailing Hertz

Technology image of the week: selected after a worldwide competition, the new name of ESA’s recently…

Renaming ESA’s antenna test chamber

Selected after a worldwide competition, the new name of ESA’s recently refitted Compact Payload Test Range…

Sea-level detail from CryoSat

Detail of sea-surface topography: red represents higher sea levels while blue areas are lower. The ‘strips’…

Station over Darmstadt

This image is a composite of nine photos taken 5–10 minutes after midnight on 6–7 June…

Herschel’s population of trans-Neptunian objects

ESA’s Herschel space observatory has observed 132 of the known 1400 cold worlds that inhabit a…