Terahertz security for e-shopping centres – and US border

COVID-19 has revolutionised security practices along with other parts of everyday life: screening people via personal…

Interplanetary internet & cameras in space: ESA’s OPS-SAT first results

OPS-SAT is the world’s first open, in-orbit testbed for new spacecraft software and applications. By conducting low-cost,…

Rings of relativity

The narrow galaxy elegantly curving around its spherical companion in this image is a fantastic example…

Earth from Space: Lapland

Video: 00:03:38 In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes…

Rovaniemi, Lapland

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over Lapland, the largest and northernmost region of Finland, just…

Neptune’s curious dark spots

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope watched a mysterious dark vortex on Neptune abruptly steer…

Solar Orbiter prepares for festive Venus flyby

Solar Orbiter is getting ready for the first of many gravity assist flybys of Venus on…

Solar Orbiter flyby of Venus

Visualisation of ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft flying by Venus. The spacecraft will make numerous gravity assist…

ESA partnering on UK’s new space thruster test site

Today marks the start of final assembly of the UK’s new National Space Propulsion Facility. ESA…

Mountains of snow

Image: Heavy snowfall in the Alps has been recorded over the past weeks. The Copernicus Sentinel-3…