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Little Red Dot Abell2744-QSO1 (NIRCam Image)

Science & Exploration

Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy

27/05/2026 4318 views 50 likes

Artist's view of the ICI-5 mission flying through the aurora borealis and deploying daughter payloads

ESA’s Prodex programme brings scientific research to space

22/05/2026 1760 views 54 likes

ESA at GLOBSEC 2026

22/05/2026 621 views 23 likes

Earth’s stormy heart

Insights into Earth’s molten outer core from space

21/05/2026 4830 views 70 likes

Solar eclipse (artist impression)

Science & Exploration

Join ESA for a total solar eclipse on 12 August 2026

21/05/2026 19310 views 72 likes

Group photo with the members of ESA's astronaut reserve in the training hall of ESA’s European Astronaut Centre .

Science & Exploration

ESA astronaut reserve completes training programme

21/05/2026 1822 views 23 likes

Scout missions

Greenlight for next two ESA Scout missions

20/05/2026 3157 views 53 likes

Wide view of Vega-C liftoff with Smile

Science & Exploration

Smile lifts off on quest to reveal Earth’s invisible shield…

19/05/2026 9110 views 54 likes

Mars Express visits Shalbatana Vallis on Mars

Science & Exploration

Waterworn chaos on Mars

13/05/2026 3951 views 95 likes

ESA and JAXA team up on planetary defence, Ramses mission t…

07/05/2026 5268 views 69 likes

Extended reality at ESA

Enabling & Support

Extended Reality at ESA opens new pathways for space explor…

07/05/2026 2499 views 48 likes

Airship over Sodankylä

Putting the ‘super’ into a supersite for Earth observation

06/05/2026 2204 views 56 likes

Star-forming regions in M51

Science & Exploration

Webb & Hubble find massive star clusters emerge faster

06/05/2026 5957 views 67 likes

ESA astronaut Thomas Cross on the uncharted planet Persephone

ESA and DON’T NOD team up on a journey to the planet Persep…

06/05/2026 8834 views 53 likes

Fourteen European satellites on the same rideshare launcher have successfully reached orbit

Launch boosts European Earth monitoring and connectivity

04/05/2026 2693 views 48 likes

The Sentinel-1 mission

Sentinel-1D goes live: a milestone for Europe’s radar missi…

01/05/2026 5007 views 64 likes

Ariane 6 lifts off for flight VA268

Enabling & Support

Another one: Ariane 6 flies with four boosters once more

30/04/2026 5826 views 47 likes

Team preparing the plasma wind tunnel

Enabling & Support

Plasma-hot Space Rider tests for belly and flaps

29/04/2026 1943 views 37 likes

Gallery forests of the Angola–DRC borderlands

Stunning images from Biomass mark its one year in orbit

29/04/2026 4311 views 81 likes

Not your normal commute

Braving the Arctic for upcoming polar-focused satellites

24/04/2026 2423 views 53 likes

Smile delivered to space (artist impression, GIF)

Science & Exploration

Smile set to launch on 19 May

23/04/2026 6175 views 48 likes

Close-up of Plato’s cameras

Science & Exploration

Plato aces space-like tests

23/04/2026 5078 views 43 likes

First full-size Space Rider test model assembled

Enabling & Support

Space Rider drop model ready to glide

22/04/2026 12616 views 54 likes

Desert locust

Turning data from space into action for Earth

22/04/2026 2230 views 33 likes

Strong gravitational lenses captured by Euclid

Science & Exploration

Euclid Space Warps: help spot galaxies bending spacetime

21/04/2026 7095 views 101 likes

Trifid Nebula (Wide Field Camera 3 Image)

Science & Exploration

Hubble turns 36 with a dazzling Trifid Nebula portrait

20/04/2026 7315 views 56 likes

FLEX, Sentinel-3C and MTG-I2 on show at TAS cleanrooms

Three ESA-built satellites on show in France

16/04/2026 3465 views 58 likes

Salps

Antarctica’s vanishing sea ice transforms marine life

15/04/2026 2526 views 60 likes

Mars Express captures dark ash covering Mars’s Utopia Planitia

Science & Exploration

Ash creeps across Mars

15/04/2026 12272 views 87 likes

HydRON optical communication for broadband in space

ESA begins next phase of 'fibre in the sky' optical communi…

15/04/2026 2222 views 50 likes

Imaged of processed Proba-3 data that highlights movement around the Sun

Science & Exploration

First Proba-3 science: surprisingly speedy solar wind

13/04/2026 4072 views 48 likes

Science & Exploration

Artemis II: splashdown

11/04/2026 8546 views 93 likes

ESA’s Celeste broadcasts first navigation signal

ESA’s Celeste broadcasts first navigation signal from low E…

10/04/2026 4400 views 43 likes

ESA Education's Moon Camp and Mission X School Projects

Walk in the footsteps of Artemis

07/04/2026 3446 views 36 likes

Light hits graphene aerogel

Science & Exploration

Graphene and lasers for space propulsion

07/04/2026 5019 views 38 likes

Comet 3I/ATLAS seen by Juice’s science camera

Science & Exploration

Five things Juice has revealed about Comet 3I/ATLAS

02/04/2026 14027 views 136 likes

The Artemis II rocket, with Orion and its European Service Module on top, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Science & Exploration

Artemis II mission begins

02/04/2026 45389 views 292 likes

Géraldine Naja takes up duty as Director of Space Transport…

01/04/2026 2027 views 25 likes

Christine Klein takes up duty as acting Director of Control…

01/04/2026 1217 views 30 likes

View from orbit as satellites are deployed during the Transporter‑16 rideshare mission.

Seven missions launched to test optimised data transfer fro…

31/03/2026 2355 views 40 likes

ESA engineer Luca Fossati in Orion's Mission Evaluation Room in an Artemis II simulation

Science & Exploration

European eyes on Artemis

31/03/2026 6409 views 72 likes

Italy’s IRIDE space programme adds eight satellites

Eight more satellites added to IRIDE space programme

31/03/2026 2031 views 39 likes

Dividing Earth and Moon

Science & Exploration

European Service Module engines powering Artemis II

30/03/2026 25935 views 254 likes

Liftoff for Celeste on Rocket Lab's Electron rocket

Celeste’s first satellites launched to explore LEO-based sa…

28/03/2026 4731 views 55 likes

Medicane Jolina from MSG

Getting to the core of a medicane

27/03/2026 4596 views 42 likes

Saturn (2024 Webb & Hubble images)

Science & Exploration

Webb & Hubble capture new views of Saturn

25/03/2026 8658 views 84 likes

Sentinel-6B release into orbit

2026 European Space for Sustainability Award is now open fo…

25/03/2026 1994 views 23 likes

Carbon monoxide emissions over central South America, September 2024

Amazon wildfire emissions up to three times higher than est…

25/03/2026 2589 views 46 likes

Gamma-Cas and its hungry white dwarf companion

Science & Exploration

XRISM solves famous star’s 50-year mystery

24/03/2026 4920 views 71 likes

Mackenzie River

Tracking Arctic freshwater flow from space

23/03/2026 1773 views 34 likes

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