Hubble Spots a Dazzling Cluster in the Cloud
This Picture of the Week shows an open cluster known as NGC 2164, which was first discovered in 1826 by a Scottish astronomer named James…
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First Images and Videos From the Double Venus Flyby
Two spacecraft made historic flybys of Venus this month, and both sent back sci-fi-type views of the mysterious, cloud-shrouded planet. The Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo…
ESA and NASA Join Forces To Tackle Global Challenge of Climate Change
Climate change is, arguably, the biggest environmental challenge the global population faces today. To address this major issue, decision-makers not only need accurate information on…
Intense Wildfires Ravage Greek Island of Evia
Parts of the Mediterranean and central Europe have experienced extreme temperatures this summer, with wildfires causing devastation in both Turkey and Greece. The blaze on…
Vega VV19 Successfully Launches Pléiades Neo and SunStorm, RadCube and LEDSAT CubeSats
Europe’s Vega has delivered Pléiades Neo-4 and four auxiliary payloads, SunStorm, RadCube and LEDSAT developed through ESA, and BRO-4, to their planned orbits. Liftoff of…
Watch Vega Launch Live – Payload: Pléiades Neo-4, Bro-4, SunStorm, RadCube, LEDSat
Tune in to ESA Web TV at 02:37 BST / 03:37 CEST on August 17 to watch the Vega launch live. Vega will lift off…
Solar Orbiter Captures Venus’ Glare During Close Pass of Our Solar System’s Hottest Planet
On August 9, 2021, ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft passed within 4,967 miles (7,995 kilometers) of the surface of planet Venus. In the days leading up…
Experience the Sights and Sounds of an Extraordinary Venus Flyby
ESA’s Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo spacecraft made a historic Venus flyby earlier this week, passing by the planet within 33 hours of each other and…
Hubble Captures the Brilliant Heart of the Furnace
This jewel-bright image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 1385, a spiral galaxy 68 million light-years away from Earth, which lies in the…
Keeping an Eye on Ocean Plastic Pollution…From Space! [Video]
Meet bag, bottle, and straw, three bits of plastic left on the beach. They are only small, but they are heading into the ocean, where…
BepiColombo Spacecraft Skims Past Venus
The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Venus on August 10, 2021, as the spacecraft passed the planet for a gravity assist maneuver….
The First-Ever Space Olympics Aboard the ISS! [Video]
The International Space Station Expedition 65 crew recorded themselves on a day off after a long week of work having some weightless fun. From Earth…
Mysterious “Lonely Cloud” Bigger Than Milky Way Found in a Galaxy “No-Man’s Land”
A scientifically mysterious, isolated cloud bigger than the Milky Way has been found by a research team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)…
Rescuing the Integral Spacecraft: No Thrust? No Problem
About a year ago, a failure on the Integral spacecraft meant it fired its thrusters for likely the last time. In the days since, the…
Hubble Seeing Quintuple – But Appearances Can Be Deceiving
Clustered at the center of this image are six luminous spots of light, four of them forming a circle around a central pair. Appearances can…
Counting Carbon: Only 17% of the Carbon Budget Is Now Left
The Paris Agreement adopted a target for global warming not to exceed 1.5°C. This sets a limit on the additional carbon we can add to…
Impact Crater Trio: ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Releases Stunning Image From Lunae Planum, Mars
This image was taken on March 22, 2021, in the Lunae Planum region [16.74°N, 300.9°E] of Mars by the CaSSIS camera on the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars…
Satellites Reveal How Forests Increase Clouds and Cool the Climate
Forests are not only key to moderating our climate by sequestering atmospheric carbon, but they also create a cooling effect by increasing low-level clouds. A…