There are many other objects in orbit around the Sun than the eight major planets. There are comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and dwarf planets such as Pluto and Eris. There’s the asteroid belt betwe...
What really happens during a solar eclipse? ESA astronaut Pablo Álvarez Fernández separates myth from fact, answering common questions and misconceptions about one of nature's most spectacular phen...
Space, mountains, oceans: Science at the frontiers of exploration
On Saturday 11 July 2026, join us at CERN Science Gateway from 16h onwards for an evening celebrating curiosity and discovery. Fro...
After almost 8 years since its launch in 2018, BepiColombo is entering its most critical phase yet. As it gears up for its arrival to Mercury, our flight dynamics specialists, spacecraft controller...
Months of troubleshooting. Sleepless nights. A team that simply refused to give up. The first week of June 2026? It flew again. And the images of the solar corona are just as breathtaking as ever.
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This is the largest high-resolution photo ever made of our Milky Way galaxy’s centre in visible light. It was taken on 23 March 2025 by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. Packed wi...
El gorrión común es una de las especies antropófilas más conocidas, muy ligada a las actividades humanas, que anida en cualquier resquicio, grieta o hueco que le dejemos.
En el Centro Francisco Be...
For decades, we assumed galaxies came first.
Stars form, collapse, and slowly build black holes over billions of years. But the James Webb Space Telescope just found a black hole so massive, so an...
This video takes the viewer on a journey through space to the constellation Orion (the Hunter), a location familiar to Webb, to reveal the latest ESA/Webb Picture of the Month. This area of the sky...
How does Europe study the Sun? Discover the missions revealing the secrets of our closest star, from SOHO and Solar Orbiter to Proba-3, which is creating artificial solar eclipses in space to unloc...
Our astronaut Sophie Adenot shared this video on her social media channels with the caption:
[EN] Day 106, orbit 1644 — This timelapse shows the approach and docking of the SpaceX CRS‑34 resupply...
What did space deliver for Europe this month? From asteroid flybys to Mars landing tests, new discoveries from Webb and Hubble, and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot capturing shooting stars from orbit, ...
Los halcones peregrinos, principalmente ornitófagos, cazan a sus presas lanzándose desde posaderos o a partir de vuelos mientras campean. La eficacia es mayor cuanto menor es la distancia a la desc...
Right on the edge, 29 Cygni b blurs the line. At 15 times Jupiter’s mass, it could have formed either way… but the James Webb Space Telescope reveals it likely grew like a planet, piece by piece fr...
Con tan solo un semana de vida, uno de los cuatro pollitos ya ha salido de la comodidad del cuenco y explorar el entorno próximo. Uno de sus hermanos lo imita.
Ser pionero tiene premio, en princip...
What did space deliver for Europe this month? From asteroid flybys to Mars landing tests, new discoveries from Webb and Hubble, and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot capturing shooting stars from orbit, ...
Una urraca accede al nido de búho real, consigue romper los huevos y se alimenta de ellos durante varios días.
Los huevos llevaban abandonados seis días. La urraca, atrevida pero al mismo tiempo c...
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Our astronaut Sophie Adenot shared this video on her social media channels with the caption:
[EN] Day 100, orbit 1547 — Sunday morning science with Sophie, episode 8: orbital mechanics and unders...
The Vienna International Centre is home to a number of kestrels who are currently raising their offspring in small nests high up on our towers. This is the livefeed from one of the rooftop nests. T...