Astronaut exams

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst (left) and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman look on as their Expedition 40…

Space brings fresh water to Morocco

Recycling waste water and urine into drinking water is not only for astronauts – the same…

Milky Way’s magnetic fingerprint

The magnetic field of our Milky Way Galaxy as seen by ESA’s Planck satellite. This image…

Saturn’s rainbow rings

This colourful cosmic rainbow portrays a section of Saturn’s beautiful rings, four centuries after they were…

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…