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…

Reaching across space

Technology image of the week: as this telerobotics engineer moves his control gauntlet, a robotic hand…

Telerobotic robot hand

As engineer Manuel Aiple moves his gauntleted hand, the robotic hand a few metres away in…

A hungry starburst galaxy

This new Hubble picture is the sharpest ever image of the core of spiral galaxy Messier…