Space Science Image of the Week: Share your favourite memory of the Herschel space observatory as we celebrate the legacy of this extraordinary mission

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, ending its 13-year tour of the ringed planet.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, ending its 13-year tour of the ringed planet.

Our week through the lens: 11-15 September 2017

Cassini’s last look around Saturn’s neighbourhood before concluding its 13-year journey of discovery

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The international Cassini mission has concluded its remarkable exploration of the Saturnian system in spectacular style, by plunging into the gas planet’s atmosphere.

Four of the latest set of Galileo navigation satellites will be launched on Ariane 6 rockets – ESA’s first contract to use Europe’s new vehicle.

A chapter in the exploration of the outer solar system ends. Hopefully, it will someday resume.

In the 1960s, photographs of Earth taken by the first astronauts captured the imaginations of people across the world. The pictures not only became icons for space exploration, but also the fragility of our planet. But astronauts were not …

Earth observation image of the week: the southeastern coast of the Italian island of Sicily, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme

With one of its twin satellites almost out of fuel after 15 years measuring Earth’s gravity field, the U.S./German GRACE mission is making plans for a final science collection.

With one of its twin satellites almost out of fuel after 15 years measuring Earth’s gravity field, the U.S./German GRACE mission is making plans for a final science collection.

Operations image of the week: ESA mission control in 2005 as data arrive from the Huygens Titan lander, relayed by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft

Whether you are on a diet or just want to be healthier, you might be one of those millions of people around the planet who use a mobile app to track everything you eat. The trend has arrived in space: European astronauts are now logging th…

Join us Friday, 15 September, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme

Counting down the final moments of Saturn’s epic spacecraft.

With liftoff set for 13 October, engineers at Russia’s Plesetsk launch site are steaming ahead with the task of getting Europe’s next Copernicus satellite ready for its journey into orbit.

An impactor smashing into an ice-rich surface gave rise to the complex flow features around this ancient crater on Mars.

Before and after the wildfires in Portugal with Sentinel-3A

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has begun the steep ascent of an iron-oxide-bearing ridge that’s grabbed scientists’ attention since before the car-sized rover’s 2012 landing.

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has begun the steep ascent of an iron-oxide-bearing ridge that’s grabbed scientists’ attention since before the car-sized rover’s 2012 landing.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is on final approach to Saturn, following confirmation by navigators that it is on course to dive into the planet’s atmosphere on Friday, Sept. 15.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is on final approach to Saturn, following confirmation by navigators that it is on course to dive into the planet’s atmosphere on Friday, Sept. 15.

Technology image of the week: the simulated multi-sensor view from a debris-catching chaser mission, targeting a derelict satellite

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Pangaea geology course field trip

With a day and a half to go until Cassini’s demise, here’s what you need to know about the intrepid spacecraft.

It’s time to test the spacecraft’s systems as it flies deeper into the Kuiper Belt.

ESA’s Kevin McMullan and Claus Zehner join the Earth from Space video programme from the cleanroom to discuss the Sentinel-5P satellite and its mission

I always feel like, somebody’s watchin’ me…

The international Cassini mission reaches its dramatic finale this Friday by plunging into Saturn’s atmosphere, concluding 13-years of exploration around the ringed planet.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is headed toward its Sept. 15 plunge into Saturn, following a final, distant flyby of the planet’s giant moon Titan.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is headed toward its Sept. 15 plunge into Saturn, following a final, distant flyby of the planet’s giant moon Titan.

One of Cassini’s last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a distance

In a few million years, things are going to get ugly.

Space Science Image of the Week: As Cassini makes its last flyby of Titan today, setting it on course for Friday’s mission end, we recall Huygens’ descent to this mysterious moon

Our week through the lens: 4-8 September 2017

A cloud of gas in our galaxy’s center might house this long-sought-after object.

As the Cassini spacecraft nears the end of a long journey rich with scientific and technical accomplishments, it is already having a powerful influence on future exploration.

As the Cassini spacecraft nears the end of a long journey rich with scientific and technical accomplishments, it is already having a powerful influence on future exploration.

For the first time, scientists have detected sea level “fingerprints” — patterns of variation in global sea level due to changes in water and ice on land — in GRACE data.

For the first time, scientists have detected sea level “fingerprints” — patterns of variation in global sea level due to changes in water and ice on land — in GRACE data.

Paolo Nespoli sends a video greeting from the International Space Station to everyone at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre on the occasion of its 50th anniversary

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Our Sun threw out two large flares the morning of September 6, and it may not be done.

Fifty years ago tomorrow, the European Space Operations Centre was inaugurated in Darmstadt, Germany. Since then, the centre has become known worldwide as Europe’s ‘Gateway to Space’. 

Juno has observed massive amounts of energy over Jupiter’s polar regions that contribute to the giant planet’s powerful aurora.

Juno has observed massive amounts of energy over Jupiter’s polar regions that contribute to the giant planet’s powerful aurora.

Technology image of the week: the Large European Acoustic Facility, built to blast satellites with simulated launch noise, will be on view during next month’s ESA Open Day in the Netherlands

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Hurricane Harvey seen from the International Space Station

Video footage recalling the one-of-a-kind journey of Cassini’s Huygens probe to the surface of Titan in 2005

Astronomers observed 15 new pulses from this mysterious source — now at higher frequencies than ever before.

Despite the welcome showers at the weekend, abnormally low soil-moisture conditions persist in central Italy. Scientists are using satellite data to monitor the drought that has gripped the country.

Watch our new video: 50 years of mission control in #Darmstadt #ESOC50

The Sentinel-5P satellite has arrived in Plesetsk in northern Russia to be prepared for liftoff on 13 October. Built to deliver global maps of air pollutants every day and in more detail than ever before, this latest Copernicus mission wil…

Space Science Image of the Week: Boosting Gaia’s science return with a special sky-mapping mode

Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronauts Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson returned to Earth this morning after their stay on the International Space Station, landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan. From there, Jack and Peggy flew to ESA’s European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.

Space Science Image of the Week: ESA’s Solar Orbiter will face the Sun from within the orbit of Mercury

Our week through the lens: 28 August – 1 September 2017

Ultraviolet radiation reaches the outer planets, improving the chances for liquid water.

Could you be one of them? If you want to share your passion of space with the public, being a NASA Solar System Ambassador is the perfect platform to do so.

Could you be one of them? If you want to share your passion of space with the public, being a NASA Solar System Ambassador is the perfect platform to do so.

Operations image of the week: Long before #MohawkGuy, ESA’s mission control had #HipsterHair

Keep an eye out for the asteroid on Friday.

21st century, meet IRL steampunk.

The movements of more than 300 000 stars surveyed by ESA’s Gaia satellite reveal that rare close encounters with our Sun might disturb the cloud of comets at the far reaches of our Solar System, sending some towards Earth in the distant future.

NASA is using its assets and expertise from across the agency, including from JPL, to help respond to Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey.