ESA – Soft landing for Mars

  Replica of one of the landing legs of the Rosalind Franklin descent module during a…

NASA Develops Sensor to Improve Firefighter Safety

With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA’s FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to…

Earth views at night during the Lyrids meteor shower – εpsilon mission

Auroras, thunderstorms, and brightly lit cities streak across this nighttime timelapse captured by ESA astronaut Sophie…

ESA – Smile launch highlights

ESA’s Smile satellite launched aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket…

Inflight call with ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot

On 20 May, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot conducted an in-flight call with selected media representatives live…

DNA Nano Therapeutics‑3 experiment timelapse

In this timelapse, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot processes blood stem cell samples to help scientists understand…

From orbit: a tapestry of cities and fleets

A view from the Cupola window in mid‑April, as brightly lit cities and shipping fleets drift…

Change in Earth’s molten core flow 1997–2025

The molten core, which swirls about 2200 km beneath our feet, generates Earth’s geomagnetic field as…

Hot surfaces during Europe’s heatwave ‘seen’ by Sentinel-3

Europe is in the middle of a heatwave, with record air temperatures for May in many…

Students Build Moon Robots for NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge

Katherine Rauscher, of Michigan Technological University, prepares her team’s prototype lunar robot for its turn during…