Predictive Science Inc.'s data-assimilative, continuously running prediction model updated in near real time for the August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse.

There will be a partial eclipse of the Sun visible from the whole of the UK during the evening of Wednesday, 12 August 2026, with the Sun appearing as just a thin crescent – a unique event. But while ...

The European Service Module is ESA’s contribution to NASA’s Orion spacecraft that will send astronauts to the Moon and beyond. It provides electricity, water, oxygen and nitrogen as well as keeping th...

The mission's last, big push on its lunar journey takes humans out of the Earth's orbit for the first time since 1972.

YouTube video by European Space Agency, ESA

Proba-3: our eyes on the Sun’s inner corona

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination of the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L1), where it will start its prime mission of studying the heliosphere and ...

LEAPS is an opportunity for students with an interest in astronomy and astrophysics to perform a 10 week summer research project in collaboration with a research scientist from Leiden Observatory or ESA/ESTEC. The program is open to all students not currently engaged in a Ph.D. program (please see the full eligibility criteria) We would like to use LEAPS as an opportunity to increase the diversity of researchers in Astronomy as we understand that successful science is supported by this. Students are selected for the program based on their academic achievements and research potential. Each applicant has the opportunity to choose up to two projects of interest, and they are selected by project advisors based on what they indicate their scientific interests and experience to be. Research at Leiden Observatory and ESA/ESTEC takes place on a diverse array of topics (see below for LEAPS 2026 projects), and student projects will likely consist of anything from the analysis of data from world-class telescopes, to large computer simulations, to hands-on work in the astrochemistry laboratories.

Information about the Geminid meteor shower