Space is hard – mission control after Apollo 13

Apollo 13 has been called ‘NASA’s finest hour’. What was meant to have been the third…

Hunting for dead stars

This image depicts a swirling spiral galaxy named NGC 2906.  The blue speckles seen scattered across this galaxy…

Montevideo, Uruguay

Image: Montevideo, Uruguay Click here for original story, Montevideo, Uruguay Source: ESA…

Earth from Space: Montevideo

Video: 00:02:39 In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us…

Cheops – the science begins

ESA’s first mission to study exoplanets is about to start its science operations after successfully completed…

Mapping fire near Chernobyl

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Mapping Chernobyl fires from space

With an outbreak of wildfires recently threatening the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine,…

Views of Earth from BepiColombo’s flyby

Video: 00:00:33 A compilation of about 200 images collected by the joint European-Japanese mission BepiColombo during…

Cheops: the science begins

Video: 00:03:00 ESA’s first mission dedicated to the study of exoplanets is about to start its…

Air pollution remains low as Europeans stay at home

Further analyses are showing the continued low levels of nitrogen dioxide concentrations across Europe – coinciding…