European Space Agency - Archive

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IRIS² is the EU’s satellite network that will provide sovereign, secure, reliable connectivity across Europe and beyond.

IRIS² reinforced and accelerated as implementation advances

07/08/2026 3618 views 35 likes

Hera surveying Dimorphos

Enabling & Support

Your chance to run software in deep space on ESA's asteroid…

05/08/2026 3453 views 30 likes

Absolute severity measures the loss of above-ground biomass after a disturbance, such as wind, fire or insect damage, or after tree harvesting.

Europe’s forests losing more biomass since 2018

05/08/2026 2015 views 51 likes

Solar eclipse (artist impression)

Science & Exploration

Total solar eclipse: how to watch live from home

05/08/2026 51259 views 22 likes

ESA and Pokémon team up to celebrate World Space Week

04/08/2026 33621 views 157 likes

Surface water over South America from HydroGNSS

HydroGNSS data open for new insights into Earth’s water

31/07/2026 2970 views 45 likes

Themis during wet dress rehearsal

Enabling & Support

Major rehearsal takes Themis one step closer to flight

30/07/2026 2496 views 20 likes

Pacific Ocean salinity June 2026

SMOS salinity could offer early indicator of El Niño

30/07/2026 2166 views 47 likes

The data was captured by radar instruments on the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites.

How Sentinel-1 measured movement of Venezuela quakes

28/07/2026 2730 views 38 likes

Space startups at ESA's Industry Space Days

Meet space startups at ESA’s Industry Space Days

27/07/2026 1574 views 24 likes

Galileo satellite

Two new Galileo satellites enter service

24/07/2026 3327 views 58 likes

Solar eclipse (artist impression)

Science & Exploration

Watch the total solar eclipse with ESA in León

23/07/2026 22270 views 64 likes

This view of Xingu Indigenous Park and surrounding area, in the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil, shows above-ground biomass (AGB) increases and decreases between 2005 and 2024.

Improved reporting needed on forest carbon emissions

22/07/2026 1380 views 37 likes

Key visual of Expedition Sound, an ESA Space Science podcast series

Science & Exploration

Expedition Sound podcast series

16/07/2026 1559 views 35 likes

FLEX and Sentinel-3 head to launch site

FLEX and Sentinel-3C arrive at Europe’s Spaceport

16/07/2026 1688 views 39 likes

Mars Express spies metallic waves in Mars’s ancient highlands

Science & Exploration

Metallic waves on ancient Mars

15/07/2026 3881 views 74 likes

Artemis II astronauts visit the ESA workforce at ESTEC in the Netherlands.

Science & Exploration

Artemis II astronauts visit ESA

14/07/2026 4445 views 75 likes

Space Economy report

ESA releases 2026 Space Economy Report

13/07/2026 7139 views 28 likes

ESA and Poland to establish a new civil security and resili…

13/07/2026 4748 views 49 likes

ESA welcomes new UK space and defence gateway

13/07/2026 2507 views 45 likes

Interferograms of Scar Inlet Ice Shelf in 1995 compared to 2026

Satellites in tandem reveal 30 years of Antarctic ice flow

09/07/2026 2191 views 56 likes

Hera's instruments on its top 'asteroid deck'

Deep space software upgrade for Hera’s asteroid visit

08/07/2026 2435 views 41 likes

Sophie testing E4D's resistance training in space

Science & Exploration

New European exercise device begins testing with first rope…

08/07/2026 3463 views 10 likes

MTG-I2 was taken out of its protective casing at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana

Unpacking Europe’s new weather imagers

07/07/2026 2060 views 28 likes

Artist’s concept of an ancient quasar

Science & Exploration

Euclid discovers the most ancient quasar in the Universe

06/07/2026 9824 views 89 likes

Don Quijote CubeSat around Dimorphos asteroid

Surface CubeSat contracted for Ramses asteroid mission

02/07/2026 2559 views 35 likes

Aeolus-2

Authorisation paves the way for Aeolus-2 wind mission

02/07/2026 1879 views 45 likes

Exoplanet WD 1856 b (artist’s concept)

Science & Exploration

Webb studies how a planet survived the death of its star

01/07/2026 3086 views 35 likes

Science & Exploration

XMM-Newton helps revise distance to outer spiral arms

01/07/2026 4016 views 54 likes

Navigating an underground river

Science & Exploration

The space under

01/07/2026 1386 views 10 likes

Radar vision

Time to say goodbye to Sentinel-1A

30/06/2026 7912 views 77 likes

Asteroid Day & eight other key dates in asteroid history

30/06/2026 2418 views 35 likes

Flight Ticket Initiative

Enabling & Support

European Flight Ticket Initiative opens to more launch serv…

25/06/2026 1673 views 29 likes

EarthCARE White Dragon improves weather forecasts

A first: EarthCARE cloud data sharpen weather forecasts

25/06/2026 1624 views 38 likes

Euclid’s view of our galaxy’s bulge (16:9 cutout)

Science & Exploration

ESA’s Euclid captures the Milky Way’s crowded heart

24/06/2026 129365 views 200 likes

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (NIRSpec IFU)

Science & Exploration

Webb finds clues to ancient origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS

22/06/2026 4975 views 54 likes

ESA Open Days 2026

ESA Open Days 2026 are coming: mark your calendar!

22/06/2026 7375 views 124 likes

Digital cities

Galileo signal updated for internet-of-things use

19/06/2026 2261 views 43 likes

First Ariane 6 liftoff with P160C-based boosters seen with mobile hangar

Enabling & Support

Ariane 6 launches with more powerful boosters: a new record…

17/06/2026 6191 views 56 likes

ESA Council appoints two new directors

17/06/2026 1734 views 23 likes

Dust devils galore: Mars Express visits Mamers Valles on Mars

Science & Exploration

Dozens of dust devils hidden in plain sight

17/06/2026 3513 views 49 likes

Bulge fossil fragment Terzan 5 (Webb and Hubble image)

Science & Exploration

Webb & Hubble reveal relic of our galaxy’s formation

16/06/2026 2534 views 52 likes

El Niño 2026 begins

Pacific warming signals El Niño has stirred

15/06/2026 12434 views 56 likes

Antenna pointing mechanism for Galileo second generation intersatellite links, Thales Alenia Space

Conversations in the sky: Galileo’s intersatellite links te…

12/06/2026 2180 views 41 likes

ESA at ILA 2026 – Day 2 highlights

11/06/2026 774 views 20 likes

Urban expansion and flood risk in Hanoi, 2016–2026

Tracking urban expansion in hazard-prone areas

11/06/2026 4842 views 38 likes

ESA at ILA 2026 – Day 1 highlights

10/06/2026 997 views 19 likes

Simulated Arrakihs mock image of a galaxy halo

Science & Exploration

ESA adopts galactic archaeology mission Arrakihs

10/06/2026 6757 views 73 likes

The Artemis III crew was announced by NASA on 9 June 2026

Science & Exploration

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano joins NASA’s Artemis III missi…

09/06/2026 11501 views 72 likes

Proba-3’s first artificial solar eclipse after recovery

Enabling & Support

We’re back: Proba-3 ready for more science

09/06/2026 2415 views 67 likes

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