Asteroids old and new

A visualisation of the orbits of asteroids observed by ESA’s Gaia satellite, including four recent discoveries …

Earth from space: Gulf of Taranto

In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over the…

When CubeSats meet asteroid

ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence, being designed to survey the smallest asteroid ever explored, is…

The heat is on

Europe is in the grip of a heatwave. While weather forecasts provide the temperature of the…

Fire red lines

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image not only features the Woodbury fire and burn scars in Arizona, but…

Proba-2’s predicted view of 2 July eclipse

On 2 July 2019, a total solar eclipse will be visible from the South Pacific, falling…

First taste of space for Spacebus Neo satellite

The thermal vacuum test campaign of the first Spacebus Neo satellite was completed on 25 June. Less…

Perspective view of Aurorae Chaos

This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows Aurorae Chaos, a large area of chaotic terrain located…

A chaos found only on Mars

 The cracked, uneven, jumbled landscape seen in this image from ESA’s Mars Express forms an intriguing…

ESA expertise to support Portugal’s launch programme

Portugal is developing the infrastructure for a national spaceport on one of the islands of the Azores…