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EarthCARE White Dragon improves weather forecasts

A first: EarthCARE cloud data sharpen weather forecasts

25/06/2026 1181 views 32 likes

Advancing Earth science

Don’t miss the Earth Explorer 12 User Consultation Meeting

18/06/2026 671 views 14 likes

CO2M spectrometers in the cleanroom

Carbon dioxide monitoring satellite’s instrument passes vac…

17/06/2026 748 views 22 likes

El Niño 2026 begins

Pacific warming signals El Niño has stirred

15/06/2026 9818 views 55 likes

Urban expansion and flood risk in Hanoi, 2016–2026

Tracking urban expansion in hazard-prone areas

11/06/2026 2986 views 25 likes

Sentinel-1 Next Generation

ESA awards contract to build Sentinel-1 Next Generation sat…

10/06/2026 2308 views 26 likes

Atmospheric nitrogen dioxide concentrations in 2024

Cleaner air and prosperity can go hand in hand

09/06/2026 4330 views 56 likes

The agreement sets out the intention for ESA and the EBRD to further explore areas of mutual interest for potential collaboration.

ESA and EBRD to advance Earth observation for development a…

08/06/2026 1319 views 27 likes

Tessera offers high-accuracy datasets that encode what the satellite ‘sees’ of Earth’s surface

Tessera AI model offers accessible way to view Earth

04/06/2026 5074 views 53 likes

Earth’s stormy heart

Insights into Earth’s molten outer core from space

21/05/2026 7108 views 77 likes

Scout missions

Greenlight for next two ESA Scout missions

20/05/2026 3665 views 54 likes

Cyber-resilience

Enabling & Support

Satellite Evidence in the Courtroom

19/05/2026 631 views 6 likes

The StatEO26 conference was held at ESA’s Esrin site in Italy.

Earth observation data for the policymaking of tomorrow

08/05/2026 1351 views 14 likes

Earth Observation Commercialisation Forum

Watch live: selected sessions from the ESA CommEO Forum

08/05/2026 765 views 19 likes

Airship over Sodankylä

Putting the ‘super’ into a supersite for Earth observation

06/05/2026 2392 views 57 likes

Fourteen European satellites on the same rideshare launcher have successfully reached orbit

Launch boosts European Earth monitoring and connectivity

04/05/2026 2839 views 48 likes

One of Hellenic Fire System satellites

Hellenic Fire System satellites launched for Greece

04/05/2026 2163 views 37 likes

IRIDE reaches new milestone

Italy’s Earth monitoring programme reaches new milestone

04/05/2026 953 views 12 likes

The Sentinel-1 mission

Sentinel-1D goes live: a milestone for Europe’s radar missi…

01/05/2026 5429 views 67 likes

Gallery forests of the Angola–DRC borderlands

Stunning images from Biomass mark its one year in orbit

29/04/2026 4792 views 84 likes

Not your normal commute

Braving the Arctic for upcoming polar-focused satellites

24/04/2026 2596 views 54 likes

Despite accelerating loss of ice through glacier melt, exceptionally heavy snowfall in recent years is adding to the mass of the icy continent.

Why is Antarctica’s mass increasing?

23/04/2026 9216 views 44 likes

Desert locust

Turning data from space into action for Earth

22/04/2026 2506 views 33 likes

FLEX, Sentinel-3C and MTG-I2 on show at TAS cleanrooms

Three ESA-built satellites on show in France

16/04/2026 3718 views 59 likes

Salps

Antarctica’s vanishing sea ice transforms marine life

15/04/2026 2690 views 62 likes

ROSE-L radar wing deployment test

ROSE-L radar unfolds in crucial ground test

08/04/2026 1880 views 25 likes

Italy’s IRIDE space programme adds eight satellites

Eight more satellites added to IRIDE space programme

31/03/2026 2119 views 40 likes

Medicane Jolina from MSG

Getting to the core of a medicane

27/03/2026 4871 views 45 likes

MTG-I2 pushed into place for final environmental tests

Next MTG satellite passes final environmental tests

27/03/2026 807 views 20 likes

Carbon monoxide emissions over central South America, September 2024

Amazon wildfire emissions up to three times higher than est…

25/03/2026 2737 views 48 likes

Mackenzie River

Tracking Arctic freshwater flow from space

23/03/2026 1829 views 34 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite like a bird

OHB Sweden to build Sterna weather constellation

18/03/2026 2698 views 30 likes

CryoSat views a geomagnetic storm

How does an ice satellite detect a geomagnetic storm?

16/03/2026 2786 views 54 likes

HydroGNSS: Scouting for water

ESA’s HydroGNSS on track to scout for water

12/03/2026 1254 views 17 likes

Demagnetising a Hellenic Fire System satellite

Hellenic Fire System moves a step closer to launch

09/03/2026 1172 views 23 likes

Altius to track ozone

Testing ozone-monitoring satellite’s solar wings

03/03/2026 1620 views 21 likes

Grounding line retreat on West Antarctica, 1992-2025

Antarctica retreat study signals future ice loss

03/03/2026 4504 views 59 likes

Timelapse: deploying MetOp-SG-B1’s solar wing

First MetOp Second Generation-B satellite spreads its wing

25/02/2026 2304 views 63 likes

Mediterranean Sea heatwaves

Revealed: 10 new insights in climate science

18/02/2026 7513 views 65 likes

Yellow River Delta, China

River deltas are sinking faster than the sea is rising

17/02/2026 3066 views 53 likes

Flooding around the Tejo River, Portugal, by Sentinel-1

Intense rainfall brings floods across Iberian Peninsula

10/02/2026 13564 views 95 likes

Changes in methane concentration 2019–2022

The curious case of why methane spiked around Covid

06/02/2026 7356 views 89 likes

Destination Earth ready for phase 3

Europe’s digital Earth gets ready to grow user community

02/02/2026 2333 views 21 likes

Tibetan Plateau vertical ground displacement

New satellite view of Tibet’s tectonic clash

30/01/2026 12352 views 80 likes

Global air humidity by MTG-Sounder

Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first…

27/01/2026 88882 views 88 likes

Map of forest carbon from ESA’s Biomass mission

ESA’s Biomass goes live with data now open to all

26/01/2026 13092 views 111 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite in action

Arctic Weather Satellite paves way for constellation

22/01/2026 3963 views 57 likes

Gas flares in Qatar imaged by Sentinel-2A

Sentinel-2 explores night vision

15/01/2026 11787 views 124 likes

Small clearing in tropical forest

Tiny patches of deforestation drive tropical carbon loss

08/01/2026 3560 views 57 likes

Ice velocity on Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland, 2014–2024

Sentinel-1's decade of essential data over shifting ice she…

07/01/2026 5938 views 40 likes

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