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Celeste IOD-1 and 2 on Electron's kick stage (artist impression)

Watch live: First Celeste launch

27/03/2026 10214 views 112 likes

Medicane Jolina from MSG

Getting to the core of a medicane

27/03/2026 1661 views 14 likes

Saturn (2024 Webb & Hubble images)

Science & Exploration

Webb & Hubble capture new views of Saturn

25/03/2026 4964 views 68 likes

Sentinel-6B release into orbit

2026 European Space for Sustainability Award is now open fo…

25/03/2026 913 views 21 likes

Carbon monoxide emissions over central South America, September 2024

Amazon wildfire emissions up to three times higher than est…

25/03/2026 1193 views 36 likes

Gamma-Cas and its hungry white dwarf companion

Science & Exploration

XRISM solves famous star’s 50-year mystery

24/03/2026 2870 views 58 likes

Mackenzie River

Tracking Arctic freshwater flow from space

23/03/2026 1146 views 29 likes

Smile delivered to space (artist impression, GIF)

Science & Exploration

T-20 days: Smile to launch on 9 April

20/03/2026 2265 views 34 likes

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS; Nov 2025)

Science & Exploration

Hubble unexpectedly catches comet breaking up

18/03/2026 2584 views 54 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite like a bird

OHB Sweden to build Sterna weather constellation

18/03/2026 1767 views 27 likes

Hera approaching Didymos asteroids

Hera on course for asteroid rendezvous

17/03/2026 3011 views 73 likes

ESA recruits

A stellar year for talent: more than 400 job opportunities …

16/03/2026 16608 views 40 likes

CryoSat views a geomagnetic storm

How does an ice satellite detect a geomagnetic storm?

16/03/2026 2113 views 52 likes

Smile arrives at Europe's Spaceport

Science & Exploration

Smile arrives at Europe’s Spaceport

09/03/2026 2449 views 28 likes

ESA analysing fireball over Europe on 8 March 2026

09/03/2026 22070 views 81 likes

Women flying spacecraft at ESA mission control

Enabling & Support

"She flies satellites. One day, I can too."

09/03/2026 1910 views 54 likes

Meet ESA’s newest female leadership

Meet ESA’s newest female leadership

06/03/2026 3689 views 42 likes

James Webb Space Telescope spots faint asteroid 2024 YR4 - 18 February 2026

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not impact the Moon

05/03/2026 8232 views 54 likes

Coronal mass ejection on 27 May 2024

Science & Exploration

ESA’s Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the Red Plan…

05/03/2026 5190 views 59 likes

Counting craters in Mars’s ancient highlands

Science & Exploration

Counting craters

04/03/2026 2856 views 46 likes

Hubble & Euclid: zoom into Cat's Eye Nebula

Science & Exploration

Hubble & Euclid zoom into cosmic eye

03/03/2026 7463 views 74 likes

Grounding line retreat on West Antarctica, 1992-2025

Antarctica retreat study signals future ice loss

03/03/2026 3473 views 56 likes

Self-healable Cassandra demonstrator

Enabling & Support

Self-repairing spacecraft could change future missions

03/03/2026 3263 views 38 likes

Aircraft in Nimes, France, ready to test Airbus' UltraAir laser terminal

World-first gigabit-per-second laser link between aircraft …

26/02/2026 15978 views 45 likes

Timelapse: deploying MetOp-SG-B1’s solar wing

First MetOp Second Generation-B satellite spreads its wing

25/02/2026 1858 views 61 likes

Greta fires up

Enabling & Support

Greta rocket engine completes first test campaign

25/02/2026 3284 views 61 likes

Smile leaving Saint-Nazaire in France

Science & Exploration

Smile sets sail for Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana

20/02/2026 2734 views 36 likes

Uranus (January 2025)

Science & Exploration

Webb maps Uranus's mysterious upper atmosphere

19/02/2026 14323 views 60 likes

Celeste in-orbit demonstration satellites orbiting

ESA’s Celeste target launch date confirmed

19/02/2026 4499 views 33 likes

Mediterranean Sea heatwaves

Revealed: 10 new insights in climate science

18/02/2026 5719 views 64 likes

Yellow River Delta, China

River deltas are sinking faster than the sea is rising

17/02/2026 2388 views 50 likes

Crew-12 inside the International Space Station

Science & Exploration

Official start of ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot’s εpsilon mis…

14/02/2026 4006 views 56 likes

More power: first Ariane 6 with four boosters launched

Enabling & Support

More power: first Ariane 6 with four boosters lifts off

12/02/2026 5550 views 31 likes

Artist impression of the planetary system around the star LHS 1903

Science & Exploration

Cheops discovers late bloomer from another era

12/02/2026 4719 views 40 likes

ESA will engage global leaders at the Munich Security Confe…

11/02/2026 1278 views 18 likes

Women and Girls in Science: Sharing wisdom, shaping the future

ESA marks International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2…

11/02/2026 1816 views 79 likes

ESA awards contracts for Ramses mission to Apophis

10/02/2026 3432 views 43 likes

Flooding around the Tejo River, Portugal, by Sentinel-1

Intense rainfall brings floods across Iberian Peninsula

10/02/2026 12192 views 92 likes

Artist's view of Ariane 6 with four boosters over Earth

Enabling & Support

Watch live: first launch of Ariane 6 with four boosters

10/02/2026 20646 views 148 likes

Science & Exploration

Watch live: Crew-12 launch and docking

10/02/2026 17786 views 117 likes

Changes in methane concentration 2019–2022

The curious case of why methane spiked around Covid

06/02/2026 6768 views 87 likes

A presidential greeting ahead of Sophie Adenot's first spac…

05/02/2026 1893 views 41 likes

Overhead perspective of Flaugergues Crater

Science & Exploration

Explore Mars’s Flaugergues Crater

04/02/2026 3197 views 80 likes

Four-satellite Cluster mission

Moving satellites to meet a plane for rare reentry data

02/02/2026 5421 views 30 likes

Tibetan Plateau vertical ground displacement

New satellite view of Tibet’s tectonic clash

30/01/2026 11365 views 75 likes

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

Science & Exploration

Crew-12, scheduled to launch on Wednesday 11 February

29/01/2026 6416 views 95 likes

The ESA Director General and Directors spoke to media during the 18th European Space Conference

ESA at the European Space Conference - Day 2

28/01/2026 1029 views 20 likes

Astrophysical anomalies from Hubble’s archive

Science & Exploration

1400 quirky objects found in Hubble's archive

27/01/2026 11644 views 61 likes

Global air humidity by MTG-Sounder

Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first…

27/01/2026 87574 views 87 likes

Map of forest carbon from ESA’s Biomass mission

ESA’s Biomass goes live with data now open to all

26/01/2026 10665 views 100 likes

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