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