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Hubble & Euclid: zoom into Cat's Eye Nebula

Science & Exploration

Hubble & Euclid zoom into cosmic eye

03/03/2026 1450 views 21 likes

Grounding line retreat on West Antarctica, 1992-2025

Antarctica retreat study signals future ice loss

03/03/2026 1154 views 33 likes

Self-healable Cassandra demonstrator

Enabling & Support

Self-repairing spacecraft could change future missions

03/03/2026 1324 views 22 likes

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

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

26/02/2026 2323 views 28 likes

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

First MetOp Second Generation-B satellite spreads its wing

25/02/2026 1450 views 57 likes

Greta fires up

Enabling & Support

Greta rocket engine completes first test campaign

25/02/2026 2670 views 58 likes

Smile leaving Saint-Nazaire in France

Science & Exploration

Smile sets sail for Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana

20/02/2026 2446 views 35 likes

Uranus (January 2025)

Science & Exploration

Webb maps Uranus's mysterious upper atmosphere

19/02/2026 12769 views 56 likes

Celeste in-orbit demonstration satellites orbiting

ESA’s Celeste target launch date confirmed

19/02/2026 3298 views 30 likes

Mediterranean Sea heatwaves

Revealed: 10 new insights in climate science

18/02/2026 4892 views 64 likes

Yellow River Delta, China

River deltas are sinking faster than the sea is rising

17/02/2026 1916 views 46 likes

Crew-12 inside the International Space Station

Science & Exploration

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

14/02/2026 3745 views 55 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 5024 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 4161 views 39 likes

ESA will engage global leaders at the Munich Security Confe…

11/02/2026 1152 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 1690 views 78 likes

ESA awards contracts for Ramses mission to Apophis

10/02/2026 3029 views 43 likes

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

Intense rainfall brings floods across Iberian Peninsula

10/02/2026 11388 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 20303 views 148 likes

Science & Exploration

Watch live: Crew-12 launch and docking

10/02/2026 17558 views 117 likes

Changes in methane concentration 2019–2022

The curious case of why methane spiked around Covid

06/02/2026 6256 views 86 likes

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

05/02/2026 1784 views 41 likes

Overhead perspective of Flaugergues Crater

Science & Exploration

Explore Mars’s Flaugergues Crater

04/02/2026 3033 views 78 likes

Four-satellite Cluster mission

Moving satellites to meet a plane for rare reentry data

02/02/2026 5111 views 29 likes

Tibetan Plateau vertical ground displacement

New satellite view of Tibet’s tectonic clash

30/01/2026 10798 views 74 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 6288 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 967 views 20 likes

Astrophysical anomalies from Hubble’s archive

Science & Exploration

1400 quirky objects found in Hubble's archive

27/01/2026 11103 views 60 likes

Global air humidity by MTG-Sounder

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

27/01/2026 86931 views 86 likes

Map of forest carbon from ESA’s Biomass mission

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

26/01/2026 9609 views 96 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite in action

Arctic Weather Satellite paves way for constellation

22/01/2026 3286 views 57 likes

graphic highlighting ESA's presence at the 18th European Space Conference

ESA at the European Space Conference 2026

21/01/2026 2300 views 15 likes

Friction stir welding machine at MT Aerospace

Enabling & Support

Artificial intelligence in manufacturing rocket parts

21/01/2026 2565 views 60 likes

Unleashing a solar flare

Science & Exploration

Magnetic avalanches power solar flares, finds Solar Orbiter

21/01/2026 7296 views 55 likes

Slow-motion drop for ExoMars landing platform

Science & Exploration

Legs made for a Mars landing 

21/01/2026 4783 views 39 likes

Coronal Mass Ejection erupts from the Sun on 18 January 2026

ESA monitoring January 2026 space weather event

20/01/2026 19188 views 64 likes

Sophie Adenot exercising on E4D

Science & Exploration

Revolutionising astronaut fitness for deep space missions

16/01/2026 3821 views 64 likes

Gas flares in Qatar imaged by Sentinel-2A

Sentinel-2 explores night vision

15/01/2026 9404 views 115 likes

ESA and Playmobil launch Mars mission collection

08/01/2026 4942 views 60 likes

Small clearing in tropical forest

Tiny patches of deforestation drive tropical carbon loss

08/01/2026 3143 views 57 likes

Ice velocity on Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland, 2014–2024

Sentinel-1's decade of essential data over shifting ice she…

07/01/2026 4801 views 39 likes

Mars Express sees sandblasted wind sculptures near Eumenides Dorsum

Science & Exploration

Sandblasting on Mars

07/01/2026 3795 views 64 likes

Location of Cloud-9

Science & Exploration

Cloud-9: a new celestial object found by Hubble

05/01/2026 20434 views 91 likes

Tree planting for εpsilon

Science & Exploration

From roots to rocket

05/01/2026 2245 views 70 likes

ESA's Ministerial Council 2025

Post-CM25 industry event online set for 14 January

19/12/2025 4404 views 30 likes

Coronal mass ejection captured by Proba-2, Proba-3 and SOHO

Enabling & Support

Proba-3 fills the solar observation gap

17/12/2025 3097 views 49 likes

Galileo launch 14 liftoff

Galileo’s first Ariane 6 launch strengthens European resili…

17/12/2025 6134 views 65 likes

Sea-level height in the Gulf Stream, by Sentinel-6B

First image from Sentinel-6B extends sea-level legacy

16/12/2025 3009 views 39 likes

Methane from landfill site

Satellites help tackle landfill methane leaks

15/12/2025 5437 views 66 likes

Artist's view of Galileo SAT 33 and 34 on their Ariane 6 launcher moments after fairing release.

Watch live: Galileo launch on Ariane 6

12/12/2025 12439 views 86 likes

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