Reaching a major milestone, engineers have connected successfully the two halves of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb…
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CERN simulating Jupiter
Technology image of the week: this CERN test facility was used to recreate the highly radioactive…
Gaia untangles the starry strings of the Milky Way
Rather than leaving home young, as expected, stellar ‘siblings’ prefer to stick together in long-lasting, string-like…
ESA Open Day, ESTEC, 2019
Come and join us for ESA’s annual Open Day on Sunday 6 October at the Agency’s…
Raft of rubble
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features a huge raft of pumice rock drifting in the Pacific Ocean …
ExoMars rover ready for environment testing
The Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has completed its construction activities in the UK and will now…
Amazon fires
Human and robotic exploration image of the week: Amazon wildfires as seen from the International Space…
Fires ravage the Amazon
Thousands of fires have broken out in the Amazon rainforest. Satellite data show that there are…
Wildfires in Brazil from Copernicus Sentinel-3
An unprecedented amount of fires have broken out in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. In this image, captured…
X-ray kaleidoscope
Space Science Image of the Week: Stellar remnants in the Messier 83 galaxy put on a…