NASA faces a dire future, according to experts

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Aging infrastructure, short-term thinking, and ambitions that far outstrip its funding are…

Hubble Examines a Spiral Star Factory

One noticeable difference between the Milky Way galaxy and NGC 5668 is that this galaxy is…

Fly over Mercury with BepiColombo

See Mercury in a whole new light, through the ‘eyes’ of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft, as…

Why are Mars’ polar caps different from each other?

View larger. | Perspective view of Mars’ north polar ice cap from ESA’s Mars Express orbiter.…

BepiColombo’s fourth Mercury flyby: the movie

Watch the closest flyby of a planet ever, as the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft sped past Mercury…

ESA – Ready at Kennedy

The team at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, unboxed ESA’s third European Service Module…

Question mark galaxy? Gravity lens creates cosmic graffiti

When, where, how? The cosmos is full of questions. Still, astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space…

Cloudy with a chance of explosions

The subject of this Hubble Picture of the Week is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo named NGC 5668.…

Earth from Space: Adriatic bloom

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures algal bloom swirls in the north Adriatic Sea, along the coast…

Earth from Space: Adriatic bloom

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures algal bloom swirls in the north Adriatic Sea, along the coast…