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First picture from Cupola by ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot during the εpsilon mission

Week in images: 16-20 March 2026

20/03/2026 444 views 21 likes

Week in images: 09-13 March 2026

13/03/2026 3477 views 97 likes

Counting craters in Mars’s ancient highlands

Week in images: 02-06 March 2026

06/03/2026 1997 views 47 likes

Webb Examines Cranium Nebula

Week in images: 23-27 February 2026

27/02/2026 2666 views 59 likes

Proba-2's view from Earth orbit of an annular solar eclipse

Week in images: 16-20 February 2026

20/02/2026 2034 views 41 likes

For Valentine’s Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission sends love from space, capturing the heart-shaped oasis of Faiyum, just south of Cairo, Egypt.

Week in images: 09-13 February 2026

13/02/2026 1957 views 39 likes

Overhead perspective of Flaugergues Crater

Week in images: 02-06 February 2026

06/02/2026 2299 views 45 likes

COSMOS Field MoM-z14 Galaxy (NIRCam pullout)

Week in images: 26-30 January 2026

30/01/2026 3047 views 70 likes

Unleashing a solar flare

Week in images: 19-23 January 2026

23/01/2026 2749 views 40 likes

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image over the South Atlantic Ocean features a close-up view of the A23a iceberg, once the world’s largest. The unusually cloud-free image shows the first signs that the iceberg will soon disintegrate completely.

Week in images: 12-16 January 2026

16/01/2026 2998 views 71 likes

This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on 6 January 2026, shows Amsterdam in the Netherlands blanketed in snow.

Week in images: 05-09 January 2026

09/01/2026 4910 views 90 likes

Year in images 2025

Year in images 2025

22/12/2025 7240 views 149 likes

Dwarf stars in a glittering sky

Week in images: 15-19 December 2025

19/12/2025 2549 views 39 likes

GRB 250314A Pull-out (NIRCam image)

Week in images: 08-12 December 2025

12/12/2025 2992 views 53 likes

30 years of SOHO imaging the Sun

Week in images: 01-05 December 2025

05/12/2025 4765 views 62 likes

Ministers and high-level representatives gather for ESA's Ministerial Council

Week in images: 24-28 November 2025

28/11/2025 1393 views 32 likes

SOHO observes comet 3I/ATLAS

Week in images: 17-21 November 2025

21/11/2025 1321 views 30 likes

3D-printed space metal under microscope

Week in images: 10-14 November 2025

14/11/2025 1578 views 44 likes

Week in images: 03-07 November 2025

07/11/2025 4967 views 122 likes

The Red Spider Nebula (Webb)

Week in images: 27-31 October 2025

31/10/2025 2488 views 50 likes

First image of nitrogen dioxide from Sentinel-4

Week in images: 20-24 October 2025

24/10/2025 5456 views 78 likes

The changing face of the Chilean glaciers in the Laguna San Rafael National Park is featured in these satellite images from 1987 and 2024.

Week in images: 13-17 October 2025

17/10/2025 5671 views 100 likes

ExoMars TGO catches a dust devil on Mars

Week in images: 06-10 October 2025

10/10/2025 7729 views 123 likes

Heads of space agencies and offices met at the IAF Global Space Leaders Summit alongside IAC 2025 on 30 September 2025.

Week in images: 29 September - 3 October 2025

03/10/2025 3401 views 62 likes

Typhoon Ragasa seen from space

Week in images: 22-26 September 2025

26/09/2025 1664 views 51 likes

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures a cloud-free view over the island of Komodo in southeastern Indonesia.

Week in images: 15-19 September 2025

19/09/2025 2735 views 40 likes

From Antarctica’s Concordia Station, the crew captured the 8 September 2025 total lunar eclipse, while ESA-sponsored doctor Nina Purvis studies human adaptation to extreme conditions for future Moon and Mars missions.

Week in images: 08-12 September 2025

12/09/2025 2108 views 49 likes

A galaxy with lots to see

Week in images: 01-05 September 2025

05/09/2025 2676 views 49 likes

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

Week in images: 25-29 August 2025

29/08/2025 2319 views 47 likes

Iberian fires August 2025

Week in images: 18-22 August 2025

22/08/2025 2906 views 59 likes

Ariane 6 lofts MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 into orbit

Week in images: 11-15 August 2025

15/08/2025 3473 views 84 likes

Week in images: 04-08 August 2025

08/08/2025 2438 views 50 likes

Webb takes a fresh look at a classic deep field

Week in images: 28 July - 1 August 2025

01/08/2025 2190 views 49 likes

Swirling spiral in Hydra

Week in images: 21-25 July 2025

25/07/2025 2211 views 51 likes

Back to Europe

Week in images: 14-18 July 2025

18/07/2025 1785 views 42 likes

Cat’s Paw Nebula (NIRCam)

Week in images: 07-11 July 2025

11/07/2025 2407 views 62 likes

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.

Week in images: 30 June - 4 July 2025

04/07/2025 2499 views 48 likes

High-contrast coronograph image of TWA 7b

Week in images: 23-27 June 2025

27/06/2025 2388 views 56 likes

Astronomers discover vast filament of ‘missing’ matter

Week in images: 16-20 June 2025

20/06/2025 1976 views 35 likes

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

Week in images: 09-13 June 2025

13/06/2025 1825 views 30 likes

Cebreros transmitting the Blue Danube Waltz

Week in images: 02-06 June 2025

06/06/2025 3623 views 88 likes

With the support of the Archives of the French Ministry for European and Foreign Affairs, ESA has produced a facsimile copy of the original convention.

Week in images: 26-30 May 2025

30/05/2025 1711 views 36 likes

Streaks on Mars

Week in images: 19-23 May 2025

23/05/2025 2421 views 57 likes

Titan (Webb image - 11 July 2023)

Week in images: 12-16 May 2025

16/05/2025 2315 views 45 likes

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

Week in images: 05-09 May 2025

09/05/2025 5017 views 71 likes

ESA’s Biomass lifts off aboard Vega-C

Week in images: 28 April - 02 May 2025

02/05/2025 3967 views 80 likes

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

Week in images: 21-25 April 2025

25/04/2025 2481 views 40 likes

Sombrero Galaxy

Week in images: 14-18 April 2025

18/04/2025 3350 views 70 likes

Fuelling Biomass

Week in images: 07-11 April 2025

11/04/2025 1880 views 43 likes

Week in images: 31 March - 04 April 2025

04/04/2025 4589 views 63 likes

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