Blue bursts of hot young stars

This image, speckled with blue, white, and yellow light, shows part of the spiral galaxy IC…

New Caledonia

The New Caledonia archipelago, 1210 km east of Australia, is captured in this Envisat image, acquired…

Did you know: Why do astronauts need good teeth?

Did you know: Why do astronauts need good teeth?

Vega VV02 Zefiro 23 solid fuel rocket installed

Ahead of the launch of Vega flight VV02, the second stage Zefiro 23 engine is installed…

Earth from Space: New Caledonia

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. In the…

Monitoring urban areas

Urban areas are a rapidly changing environment and concentration of the population is ever increasing in…

Rapidly rotating black hole accreting matter

ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s NuSTAR have detected a rapidly rotating supermassive black hole in the heart…

BepiColombo MPO being placed in Phenix thermal vacuum test facility

The Mercury Planetary Orbiter, part of ESA's BepiColombo mission to Mercury, placed in the Phenix thermal…

How to cook a spacecraft

The faint aroma of hot metal filled the surrounding cleanroom as the hatch to ESA’s newest…

Chris Hadfield with Biolab

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield conducting routine maintenance on Biolab in Europe’s Columbus laboratory on…