Black hole eats a super-Jupiter

Astronomers using ESA’s Integral and XMM-Newton space telescopes, NASA’s Swift and the MAXI (Monitor of All-sky…

Revealing the cosmic microwave background with Planck

This animation illustrates the painstaking detective work performed by cosmologists in the Planck Collaboration to extract…

Proba Family

This story explains what is the PROBA family and looks back at the previous PROBA missions.…

Looking over white darkness

ESA-sponsored medical doctor Alex Salam at Concordia station recalls his experience: "A privilege to live in…

Actin and vinculin in adherent monocyte

The internal structure of a human cell in simulated gravity taken on the International Space Station.…

Noctis Labyrinthus mosaic

This mosaic shows part of the Noctis Labyrinthus region, the ‘Labyrinth of the Night’, on Mars.…

Masquerading as a double star

The object in this image is Jonckheere 900 or J 900, a planetary nebula — glowing…

The Nhamundá River, Brazil

Part of the Amazon Basin in northern Brazil is pictured in this image from the Japanese…

ESA Euronews: Planck maps the dawn of time

Scientists have traced a unique new map of the first light of the universe, and raised…

Earth from Space: Nhamundá

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