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Earth from Space: Zanzibar, Tanzania

A powerful heatwave has been gripping large parts of southern Europe. This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission’s Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer on 29 June 2025, reveals the temperature of the land surface.

A starburst shines in infrared (MIRI)

A close-up view of Vienna, Austria’s capital city, is featured in this image from April 2025.

Copernicus Sentinel-1 captured this image over part of eastern Borneo, a tropical island in Southeast Asia.

A thick plume of sand and dust from the Sahara Desert is seen in these satellite images blowing from the west coast of Africa across the Atlantic Ocean.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission has captured a dramatic image of Mount Etna erupting on 2 June 2025 when a massive plume of ash, gas and rock suddenly burst from Europe's largest active volcano.

The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission shows us a rare, cloud-free view of Iceland captured on 17 May 2025.

A glimpse of the distant past by Webb

Lake Alakol in eastern Kazakhstan is featured in this radar image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-1.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission brings us this cloud-free view of Svalbard, a remote Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.

Part of the Italian island of Sardinia is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

The Ocean and Land Colour Instrument on Copernicus Sentinel-3 captured this image of Earth’s biggest iceberg, A23a, on 5 April 2025.

Copernicus Sentinel-1 captured this radar image over French Guiana – home to Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, where ESA’s Biomass mission is being prepared for liftoff on 29 April onboard a Vega-C rocket.

Solar Orbiter’s widest high-resolution view of the Sun

This very high-resolution image captures the Egyptian city of Giza and its surrounding area, including the world-famous Giza Pyramid Complex.

Sombrero Galaxy

Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 (MIRI image)

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows part of one of the world’s natural wonders – the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea off the east coast of Queensland, Australia.

New ESA invention tested in a chamber of no echoes

Smile meets Maxwell

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission shows us what is left of the Aral Sea, once the fourth largest lake in the world.

A chance alignment in Lupus

Biomass cleared for fuelling

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the striking landscape surrounding the Waza National Park in Cameroon.

Spying a spiral through a cosmic lens (Webb telescope image)

ESA's Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Inner space engineering

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains.

Biomass out of the box

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image showcases striking rocky formations amid the blue waters of Halong Bay in northeast Vietnam.

Hera Mars flyby

Hera: Target Deimos

A solar array of the Orion spacecraft for Artemis II with the ESA and NASA logos

Webb wows with incredible detail in star-forming system

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Albania’s capital Tirana and its surroundings.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured the Maha Kumbh Mela festival, the world’s largest human gathering, which took place in the city of Prayagraj in northern India.

This Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar image shows Tokyo and its metropolitan area, the largest urban agglomeration in the world.

For Valentine’s Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission picks out a heart in the landscape north of Mount St Helens in the US state of Washington.

The ranges and valleys of the Swiss Alps stand out in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission in December 2024.

XMM-Newton finds two stray supernova remnants

KA-BOOM

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image highlights part of the São Francisco River in eastern Brazil.

Satellite ready for close-up

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