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Group picture of the signatories of the 50Y ESA Anniversary statement.

ESA Council receives Anniversary Statement

11/07/2025 918 views 4 likes

Cat’s Paw Nebula (NIRCam)

Science & Exploration

Webb scratches under Cat’s Paw Nebula for third anniversary

10/07/2025 6684 views 66 likes

NASA's Psyche mission

Enabling & Support

Europe's first deep-space optical communication link

10/07/2025 15099 views 92 likes

Space Rider model ready to drop

Enabling & Support

Closing the loop: new Space Rider drop test

09/07/2025 6013 views 43 likes

European Launcher Challenge visual

Enabling & Support

European Launcher Challenge: preselected challengers unveil…

07/07/2025 20400 views 112 likes

Southern Ocean sea ice

Antarctic waters getting saltier as sea ice wanes

04/07/2025 5233 views 53 likes

ESA observes interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

ESA tracks rare interstellar comet

03/07/2025 81565 views 501 likes

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b triggers flares from its host star (artist’s impression)

Science & Exploration

Clingy planets can trigger own doom, suspect Cheops and TESS

02/07/2025 4874 views 56 likes

MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 take to the skies

MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 launch to change how we see our atmos…

02/07/2025 6894 views 38 likes

Science & Exploration

A pinch of France in space

01/07/2025 3284 views 36 likes

MTG-S1 hosting Sentinel-4 encapsulation family photo

MTG-S1 satellite hosting the Sentinel-4 instrument is ready…

30/06/2025 3849 views 45 likes

Asteroid - artist's impression

Will asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the Moon?

40649 views 72 likes

The global ocean conveyor belt

New ESA gravity mission to detect weakening ocean conveyor

26/06/2025 6058 views 47 likes

Arcadia Planitia as seen by ESA’s Mars Express

Science & Exploration

Earth tones on Mars

26/06/2025 4815 views 47 likes

Fire driving deforestation

Satellite records expose fire driving Gran Chaco transforma…

26/06/2025 2913 views 37 likes

High-contrast coronograph image of TWA 7b

Science & Exploration

Webb finds evidence of a lightweight planet around TWA 7

25/06/2025 37999 views 101 likes

Majuro, Marshal Islands, is at risk from sea-level rise

First sea-level records for coastal community protection

25/06/2025 2120 views 38 likes

Volcanic eruption Iceland

North Atlantic’s volcanic secrets – it’s about being thin

24/06/2025 2497 views 48 likes

Bolivian forest and landscape from Biomass

Biomass satellite returns striking first images of forests …

23/06/2025 45517 views 143 likes

Director General Josef Aschbacher invites attendees at the International Paris Air Show to share some cake marking the 50th anniversary of the ESA Convention.

ESA at Le Bourget 2025 - Day Four Highlights

19/06/2025 1479 views 18 likes

Astronomers discover vast filament of ‘missing’ matter

Science & Exploration

“The models were right”: astronomers find ‘missing’ matter

19/06/2025 23735 views 80 likes

Solar corona viewed by Proba-3’s ASPIICS

Enabling & Support

Proba-3’s first artificial solar eclipse

16/06/2025 37994 views 145 likes

A view of the ESA Exhibition at the International Paris Air Show, Le Bourget

Join ESA at the International Paris Air Show 2025

11/06/2025 3766 views 41 likes

Solar Orbiter's view of the Sun's south pole

Science & Exploration

Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s poles

11/06/2025 83785 views 139 likes

On 31 May, a live performance of The Blue Danube – often referred to as the ‘anthem of space’ – was transmitted by the European Space Agency (ESA) into the vastness of space. The event marked a double celebration: ESA’s 50th anniversary and the 200th birthday of the King of Waltz Johann Strauss II.

The Blue Danube Waltz sent into the stars

05/06/2025 2220 views 26 likes

MTG-Sounder satellite over the equator

Why MTG-S1 is a nowcasting game-changer

05/06/2025 4792 views 70 likes

Flyeye's view of the Andromeda galaxy

ESA’s new asteroid hunter opens its eye to the sky

05/06/2025 8529 views 87 likes

ESA’s ocean training expedition arrives in Nice

Tall ship brings ESA ocean science training to Nice

04/06/2025 3964 views 32 likes

Sentinel-4 on MTG-S

A breath of fresh data: Sentinel-4 innovates for clean air

04/06/2025 2459 views 23 likes

ispace's RESILIENCE lander and TENACIOUS micro rover on the Moon

Enabling & Support

ESA supports Moon mission carrying first European rover

03/06/2025 8078 views 73 likes

Milky Way and Andromeda encounters

Science & Exploration

Hubble and Gaia revisit fate of our galaxy

02/06/2025 7087 views 62 likes

Simulated moonwalk shot

Science & Exploration

How to capture Moon landing videos – from grainy to HD

28/05/2025 5035 views 45 likes

Site of the European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Centre (ESDI) at Park Innovaare in Villigen, Switzerland

Inauguration of the European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Cen…

27/05/2025 5617 views 47 likes

Running on treadmill during parabolic flight

Science & Exploration

Prostheses fit to Fly!

27/05/2025 2336 views 36 likes

Science & Exploration

Recipe for a ‘rocky road’ crater soaked in martian history

21/05/2025 3326 views 52 likes

Ramses mission patch

Second CubeSat joins ESA’s Ramses mission to asteroid Apoph…

20/05/2025 4433 views 70 likes

Titan (Webb image - 11 July 2023)

Science & Exploration

Titan forecast: partly cloudy with a chance of methane show…

14/05/2025 3365 views 58 likes

Galileo In-Orbit Validation satellite

Thank you for your service, Galileo GSAT0104

13/05/2025 5885 views 62 likes

Close-up observations of auroras on Jupiter (December 2023)

Science & Exploration

Webb reveals new details and mysteries in Jupiter’s aurora

12/05/2025 5323 views 52 likes

Night-time light emissions during blackout in Spain and Portugal

Science & Exploration

Back to light

12/05/2025 6693 views 54 likes

Save the date: 16–22 June - ESA at the Paris Air Show

12/05/2025 2531 views 25 likes

Proba-3 Occulter eclipsing Sun for Coronagraph spacecraft

Enabling & Support

Proba-3 achieves precise formation flying

08/05/2025 9240 views 74 likes

Plato’s 24 newly installed cameras

Science & Exploration

Plato grows its many eyes

08/05/2025 5217 views 61 likes

Dotson Ice Shelf from Sentinel-1

Antarctic glacier caught stealing ice from neighbour

08/05/2025 19016 views 56 likes

MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 arrive in Florida

MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 take a step closer to space

07/05/2025 2587 views 34 likes

Just a week after its launch, ESA’s Biomass 12-metre-diameter antenna is now fully deployed.

Forest satellite’s big antenna opens up

07/05/2025 19440 views 146 likes

ESA Director General reaction to a reduced budget proposal …

05/05/2025 11398 views 72 likes

Above-ground biomass 2022

ESA unveils longest-ever dataset on forest biomass

02/05/2025 16520 views 62 likes

Gaia spots odd star family

Science & Exploration

Gaia spots odd family of stars desperate to leave home

29/04/2025 8784 views 79 likes

Biomass takes to the skies

Biomass launched to count forest carbon

29/04/2025 19073 views 136 likes

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