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ESA Director of Space Transportation Toni Tolker-Nielsen speaks at the European Space Conference

ESA Director of Science Carole Mundell speaking during media interactions at the European Space Conference

ESA Director of Earth Observation Simonetta Cheli speaks during media interactions at the European Space Conference

ESA Director General delivers keynote at the European Space Conference

ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher delivers keynote speech at the European Space Conference

Commissioner Andrius Kubilius delivers opening address at European Space Conference 2026

ESA booth at the 18th European Space Conference

Delegates at the European Space Conference visit the ESA booth

Commissioner Andrius Kubilius and ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher speak in a joint press point.

ESA Director of Technology Dietmar Pilz introduces the Industrialisation Centre of Competence at the European Space Conference.

ESA Director of Earth Observation Simonetta Cheli speaks during the European Space Conference in Brussels.

Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, member of ESA's astronaut reserve discusses his Ignis mission at the European Space Conference.

ESA Director of Navigation Javier Benedicto speaks during the European Space Conference

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Dark rings and new light

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the coastal area of Rudong County on China’s eastern seaboard.

Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates collision zone

From left to right: Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot from France.

A dentist at ESA’s European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT) in the UK controlling a robotic arm at the University of Glasgow’s SCENE facility at Loch Lomond.

COSMOS Field MoM-z14 Galaxy (NIRCam pullout)

Astrophysical anomalies from Hubble’s archive

Temperatures over Europe and northern Africa by MTG-Sounder

Aerial view of booster for Ariane 6 flight VA267 heading to the launch pad

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us at the Brazilian-Bolivian border over part of the Pantanal region, a unique ecosystem, home to an impressive variety of plants and wildlife.

ESA Director General discusses wildfire management at the World Economic Forum annual meeting

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti speaks on a panel at the World Economic Forum annual meeting

A celebrity cluster in the spotlight

Globular cluster targets that revealed “forever young” stars

Slow-motion drop for ExoMars landing platform

X-rays blast from a solar flare

This image, captured by Copernicus Sentinel-3 on 18 January 2026, shows clouds of smoke from wildfires on the coast of Chile.

Coronal Mass Ejection erupts from the Sun on 18 January 2026

Helix Nebula (NIRCam image)

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

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Global surface and cloud-top temperatures by MTG-Sounder

Antarctic Peninsula by Sentinel-1D

Global ozone measured by Sentinel-5A

Bolivian forest: comparing Sentinel-2 and Biomass

Solar corona viewed by Proba-3’s ASPIICS

Svalbard, Norway, seen from Sentinel-1C

Hera's first images (Asteroid Framing Camera - Earth)

Arctic Weather Satellite’s first images capture Storm Boris

Seville from Copernicus Sentinel-2C

Vertical distribution of cloud particle concentration

Euclid’s view of the Perseus cluster of galaxies

Full Earth disc from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager

Didymos and Dimorphos seen by DART

Webb’s first deep field

Mercury first impressions

First sea-level height results from Copernicus Sentinel-6

The density of stars from Gaia’s Early Data Release 3

Venus setting

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