image of the day

The Bandwagon-4 rideshare mission, which launched on Nov. 2, sent 18 payloads to orbit and, like most SpaceX launches, featured a rocket landing.

In Cerro Pachón, a full moon lights up the desert night sky and shows its many features.

Under the untouched darkness of Chile's Atacama Desert, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope stands beneath an arching Milky Way.

The European Space Agency and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently visited the spiral galaxy NGC 3370

A new panorama from the Rubin Observatory captures the Milky Way in vivid detail.

For Halloween, our space photo of the day shows a brilliant orange sunset over Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona.

Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite captured high-resolution views inside the eye of the powerful Hurricane Melissa.

A massive coronal mass ejection erupted from the sun's far side late on Oct. 21, 2025 and was captured by a NOAA coronagraph.

The 4MOST instrument on the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope has captured its first light.

With the Argonaut lunar lander and the LUNA simulation facility in Germany, the European Space Agency is building the technology and training to have life on the moon.