On April 21, 2025, ESA’s Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) began its journey to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States. 

Straddling the border between Kazakhstan in the north and Uzbekistan in the south, the Aral Sea was once a large inland water body in Central Asia.

Isar Aerospace’s two-stage launch vehicle Spectrum is 28 meters tall, 2 meters in diameter and, with its 10 engines, it’s targeting to launch payloads of up to 1,000 kilograms to low Earth orbit. 

This solar flare was captured by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission on Sept. 30, 2024.

This Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar image shows Tokyo and its metropolitan area, the largest urban agglomeration in the world. 

For Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14, 2025), the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission picks out a heart in the landscape north of Mount St. Helens in the state of Washington.  Mount St. Helens is an active volcano, known for its eruption on May 18, 1980, one of the...

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image highlights part of the São Francisco River in eastern Brazil. 

This pair of Copernicus Sentinel-2 images highlights the vast area impacted by one of the wildfires that has been ravaging the Los Angeles region. 

Peering through the window of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft, NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this image on Oct. 7, 2024, of the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft as vivid green and pink aurora swirled through Earth’s atmosphere...

The animation shows the yearly evolution of the Kronebreen glacier, using a series of Copernicus Sentinel-1 data to classify the region into areas of glacier, iceberg and growler occurrences in Kronebukta (Krone Bay) during the summer months of July to September, from 2015 to 2023.