One of the ingenious instruments on board Rosetta is designed to ‘smell’ the comet for different…
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Hubble peers inside a celestial geode
In this unusual image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a rare view of the celestial…
Giant Gas Vortices
ESA’s quartet of space-weather watchers, Cluster, has discovered vortices of ejected solar material high above the…
Mars Relay
ESA’s Mars Express has relayed pictures from one of NASA’s Mars rovers for the first time,…
Space-Age Car
The world’s fastest solar-powered car is being driven through Sweden and Norway. Nuna 2, the world’s…
Satellite Detects Ground Movement
Originally developed to pinpoint attacking aircraft during World War Two, today’s advanced radar technology can detect…
Olympus Mons Pictures
These images from ESA’s Mars Express show the western flank of the shield volcano Olympus Mons…
Switchboard in space launched
Hispasat’s Amazonas satellite was successfully launched from the Baïkonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 00:32 (CEST) on…
Rosetta’s view of home
This image, taken by ESA’s Rosetta comet-chaser spacecraft, shows the Earth-Moon system from a distance of…
View of Melas Chasma – Mars
The image of the southern part of Valles Marineris, called Melas Chasma, was obtained by the…