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Copernicus Sentinel-1D team in Kourou

Sentinel-1D preparations underway in Kourou

08/10/2025 2625 views 32 likes

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter observes comet 3I/ATLAS – GIF

Science & Exploration

ESA’s ExoMars and Mars Express observe comet 3I/ATLAS

07/10/2025 624715 views 831 likes

ESA testbed van in Norway

Navigating through interference at Jammertest

06/10/2025 4709 views 83 likes

ESA's fourth deep space antenna, in New Norcia, Australia

Enabling & Support

ESA inaugurates deep space antenna in Australia

04/10/2025 9766 views 103 likes

The European Space Agency and the Korea AeroSpace Administration signed a Memorandum of Understanding at IAC 2025 in Sydney.

European Space Agency and Korea AeroSpace Administration em…

01/10/2025 2820 views 41 likes

ESA has signed with Thales Alenia Space for the phase B2 of SAGA, a mission for European secure communications.

Advancing Europe’s quantum secure communications from space

01/10/2025 3415 views 22 likes

Sentinel-6B ready to start its launch campaign

Sea-level monitoring satellite unboxed

01/10/2025 3491 views 23 likes

A large crowd assembled for the IAC 2025 plenary session on living on another world, with speakers including ESA's Frank de Winne.

ESA at IAC 2025 - highlights from Day 3

01/10/2025 955 views 4 likes

Enceladus jets and shadows

Science & Exploration

Cassini proves complex chemistry in Enceladus ocean

01/10/2025 28081 views 92 likes

Edge-on view of our galaxy's great wave

Science & Exploration

Gaia discovers our galaxy’s great wave

30/09/2025 19079 views 160 likes

ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher hosted part of the tour of the exhibition at IAC 2025.

ESA at IAC 2025 - highlights from Day 2

30/09/2025 1253 views 5 likes

Illustration of moon-forming disc

Science & Exploration

Webb studies moon-forming disc around massive planet

29/09/2025 2781 views 48 likes

ESA and Avio signature for a reuseable upper stage demonstration mission

Enabling & Support

ESA and Avio sign contract for a reuseable upper stage demo…

29/09/2025 4887 views 52 likes

The International Convention Centre in Sydney, Australia where IAC 2025 is taking place

ESA shares stage with international partners at IAC 2025

26/09/2025 2653 views 41 likes

Sagittarius B2 (NIRCam image)

Science & Exploration

Webb explores largest star-forming cloud in our galaxy

24/09/2025 6301 views 57 likes

WIVERN

ESA selects WIVERN as 11th Earth Explorer mission

23/09/2025 7856 views 92 likes

Antarctic subglacial lake inventory

85 new subglacial lakes detected below Antarctica

19/09/2025 10554 views 89 likes

Themis T1H on the launch pad

Enabling & Support

Themis stands on the launch pad

19/09/2025 11835 views 99 likes

Science & Exploration

XRISM uncovers a mystery in the cosmic winds of change

17/09/2025 3551 views 49 likes

Gaia sees stellar nurseries (animation still)

Science & Exploration

Fly through Gaia’s 3D map of stellar nurseries

16/09/2025 33709 views 95 likes

Unloading Sentinel-1D

Sentinel-1D in French Guiana for launch campaign

11/09/2025 4703 views 35 likes

Plato sailing to the Netherlands by boat

Science & Exploration

Plato arrived at ESA’s test centre by boat

11/09/2025 4506 views 48 likes

ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher addresses a gathering in Tallinn

Estonia celebrates 10 years in ESA

05/09/2025 1371 views 19 likes

LEO-PNT satellites orbiting

Galileo ‘daughter mission’ name revealed: Celeste

04/09/2025 6777 views 56 likes

Second MTG-Imager in the thermal vacuum chamber

Second MTG-Imager satellite passes thermal vacuum test

04/09/2025 2446 views 38 likes

First glimpse of MetOp-SG-A1 Microwave Sounder data

New MetOp Second Generation weather satellite returns first…

02/09/2025 10279 views 73 likes

Graphic indicating how Solar Orbiter let us see the connection between energetic electrons in space and their sources on the Sun

Science & Exploration

Double trouble: Solar Orbiter traces superfast electrons ba…

01/09/2025 10253 views 68 likes

Webb's view of planet-forming disc IRAS 04302+2247

Science & Exploration

Dusty wisps round a dusty disc

29/08/2025 4212 views 68 likes

ESA's Ramses mission at the asteroid Apophis

ESA and JAXA advance potential Apophis mission collaboration

27/08/2025 4406 views 61 likes

Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302 (Webb & ALMA image)

Science & Exploration

Webb investigates complex heart of a cosmic butterfly

27/08/2025 11109 views 82 likes

Stellar families in Gaia’s sky

Science & Exploration

Gaia proves our skies are filled with chains of starry gath…

26/08/2025 8739 views 53 likes

Soil moisture anomalies over 2024 compared to 1991–2020

ESA data records help underpin climate change report

25/08/2025 3337 views 63 likes

Enabling & Support

Juice team resolves anomaly on approach to Venus

25/08/2025 17893 views 101 likes

Iberian fires August 2025

Iberian wildfires seen from space

20/08/2025 11676 views 65 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite small but perfectly formed

ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite adds power to forecasts

18/08/2025 4722 views 65 likes

Penguins resting on Antarctic sea ice

Tracking the climate-driven shift in Antarctic plankton fro…

13/08/2025 3335 views 56 likes

Science & Exploration

No Earth-like atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1 d

13/08/2025 5461 views 43 likes

MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 take to the skies

First MetOp-SG and Sentinel-5 launched

13/08/2025 8884 views 51 likes

Model of the distribution of space debris around Earth

CREAM: avoiding collisions in space through automation

12/08/2025 6347 views 63 likes

Science & Exploration

Webb finds new hints for planet around closest solar twin

07/08/2025 5532 views 52 likes

Asteroid (18805) Kellyday

First asteroid sightings push Hera’s camera to the limit

06/08/2025 5786 views 63 likes

Mars Express views Acheron Fossae’s western fringes

Science & Exploration

When martian ground falls apart

06/08/2025 4115 views 69 likes

Encapsulating MetOp-SG-A1 satellite in Ariane 6 fairing

First MetOp-SG satellite sealed within Ariane 6 fairing

05/08/2025 4240 views 54 likes

Global map of vegetation optical depth, 2018

SMOS adds long-term view on carbon stored in forests

01/08/2025 3145 views 55 likes

ESA Open Days 2025

Celebrating 50 years of ESA at Open Days 2025

01/08/2025 13181 views 214 likes

European forests

A troubling shift in Europe’s forest carbon balance

30/07/2025 2342 views 9 likes

NGC 6072 (NIRCam image)

Science & Exploration

Webb traces details of complex planetary nebula

30/07/2025 2944 views 15 likes

Harder Glacier, northern Greenland

Greenland subglacial flood bursts through ice sheet surface

30/07/2025 6285 views 42 likes

Fuelling MetOp-SG-A1

First MetOp Second Generation satellite fuelled

24/07/2025 2773 views 32 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-6B on route to launch site

Sea-level monitoring satellite Sentinel-6B sets sail

23/07/2025 3628 views 34 likes

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