XMM-Newton maps black hole surroundings

Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space – and now, for the…

The Sun in 2019

Image: The changing activity of our Sun as seen by ESA’s Proba-2 satellite in 2019. The…

Discover our new Solar Orbiter range

Discover our new Solar Orbiter range Click here for original story, Discover our…

ESA opens oxygen plant – making air out of moondust

ESA’s technical heart has begun to produce oxygen out of simulated moondust. Click…

Catalogues galore

This bright, somewhat blob-like object — seen in this Picture of the Week as observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble…

Earth from Space: Japanese archipelago

Video: 00:00:00 In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission…

Japanese archipelago

Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us over the Japanese archipelago – a string of islands…

First Spacebus Neo satellite launched

Ariane 5’s first launch of 2020 has delivered two telecom satellites, Konnect and GSAT-30, into their…

ExoMars Rover completes environmental tests

Image: The Rosalind Franklin rover of the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars mission completed a series of environmental…

The ESA Director General’s start-of-the-year press briefing

The ESA Director General’s start-of-the-year press briefing, held at ESA headquarters in Paris, France, on 15…