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Spectrum launches to orbit

Enabling & Support

Isar Aerospace achieves first launch to orbit from continen…

05/09/2026 7105 views 71 likes

Smoke plume from Greek wildfires seen by Sentinel-3

How Sentinel-3 tracks climate change

04/09/2026 1046 views 32 likes

Mercury Transfer Module separation

Science & Exploration

Latest updates: BepiColombo's arrival at Mercury

03/09/2026 9140 views 113 likes

FLEX and Sentinel-3C being sealed from view

FLEX and Sentinel-3C sealed within Vega-C fairing

02/09/2026 1397 views 39 likes

Science & Exploration

Third spacewalk completed for Sophie Adenot

02/09/2026 1166 views 35 likes

Tango's reentry recorded

Cluster’s encore for reentry science a success

02/09/2026 1764 views 41 likes

A render of MAGPIE, ESA's first lunar rover, on the Moon

Science & Exploration

ESA’s first lunar rover rolls forward

02/09/2026 3008 views 54 likes

Samba's reentry recorded

Samba’s fiery farewell recorded

01/09/2026 2148 views 47 likes

Sentinel-2 captures before and after Nepal flash flood

Nepal flash flood imaged by satellites

31/08/2026 48117 views 107 likes

Cluster satellite reentering Earth's atmosphere

Observing Samba and Tango’s reentries

28/08/2026 2522 views 35 likes

MTG-I2 begins its journey

MTG-I2 completes Europe’s latest weather trio

27/08/2026 3426 views 47 likes

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

Science & Exploration

Expedition Sound podcast series

27/08/2026 2639 views 61 likes

European Launcher Challenge visual

Enabling & Support

First contracts kick off European Launcher Challenge

27/08/2026 6420 views 30 likes

MTG-I2 on the launch pad

MTG-I2 ready for launch on Ariane 6

27/08/2026 3518 views 25 likes

Mercury Transfer Module separation

Enabling & Support

Watch live: BepiColombo begins its arrival at Mercury

27/08/2026 18869 views 51 likes

Science & Exploration

Second spacewalk completed for Sophie Adenot

26/08/2026 1305 views 58 likes

Petermann Glacier calves huge iceberg

Sentinel-1 captures major ice loss from Greenland glacier

21/08/2026 10947 views 87 likes

Safey is paramount when fuelling a satellite

ESA’s photosynthesis satellite fuelled

20/08/2026 1808 views 46 likes

Pennine Alps glacier retreat

Wildfires, drought and extreme heat, 2026

18/08/2026 5370 views 69 likes

Simulation of Deimos impact

Hera's Mars flyby guided impact study of Deimos moon

18/08/2026 3239 views 46 likes

Science & Exploration

A look back at the 2026 total solar eclipse

14/08/2026 14998 views 57 likes

Science & Exploration

Dust and water spotted close to giant black hole

11/08/2026 3392 views 57 likes

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 6957 views 46 likes

Hera surveying Dimorphos

Enabling & Support

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

05/08/2026 5979 views 35 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 3110 views 59 likes

Solar eclipse (artist impression)

Science & Exploration

Total solar eclipse: how to watch live from home

05/08/2026 406996 views 82 likes

ESA and Pokémon team up to celebrate World Space Week

04/08/2026 42627 views 185 likes

Surface water over South America from HydroGNSS

HydroGNSS data open for new insights into Earth’s water

31/07/2026 3662 views 49 likes

Themis during wet dress rehearsal

Enabling & Support

Major rehearsal takes Themis one step closer to flight

30/07/2026 2999 views 21 likes

Pacific Ocean salinity June 2026

SMOS salinity could offer early indicator of El Niño

30/07/2026 2451 views 50 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 3114 views 40 likes

Space startups at ESA's Industry Space Days

Meet space startups at ESA’s Industry Space Days

27/07/2026 1996 views 24 likes

Galileo satellite

Two new Galileo satellites enter service

24/07/2026 3851 views 62 likes

Solar eclipse (artist impression)

Science & Exploration

Watch the total solar eclipse with ESA in León

23/07/2026 77257 views 86 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 1557 views 38 likes

FLEX and Sentinel-3 head to launch site

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

16/07/2026 1997 views 41 likes

Mars Express spies metallic waves in Mars’s ancient highlands

Science & Exploration

Metallic waves on ancient Mars

15/07/2026 4177 views 77 likes

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

Science & Exploration

Artemis II astronauts visit ESA

14/07/2026 4655 views 76 likes

Space Economy report

ESA releases 2026 Space Economy Report

13/07/2026 9351 views 31 likes

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

13/07/2026 5239 views 49 likes

ESA welcomes new UK space and defence gateway

13/07/2026 2711 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 2518 views 59 likes

Hera's instruments on its top 'asteroid deck'

Deep space software upgrade for Hera’s asteroid visit

08/07/2026 2689 views 42 likes

Sophie testing E4D's resistance training in space

Science & Exploration

New European exercise device begins testing with first rope…

08/07/2026 3848 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 2496 views 29 likes

Artist’s concept of an ancient quasar

Science & Exploration

Euclid discovers the most ancient quasar in the Universe

06/07/2026 11038 views 93 likes

Don Quijote CubeSat around Dimorphos asteroid

Surface CubeSat contracted for Ramses asteroid mission

02/07/2026 2683 views 37 likes

Aeolus-2

Authorisation paves the way for Aeolus-2 wind mission

02/07/2026 2042 views 46 likes

Exoplanet WD 1856 b (artist’s concept)

Science & Exploration

Webb studies how a planet survived the death of its star

01/07/2026 3342 views 36 likes

Science & Exploration

XMM-Newton helps revise distance to outer spiral arms

01/07/2026 4181 views 55 likes

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