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Gaia sees stellar nurseries (animation still)

Science & Exploration

Fly through Gaia’s 3D map of stellar nurseries

16/09/2025 28790 views 90 likes

Unloading Sentinel-1D

Sentinel-1D in French Guiana for launch campaign

11/09/2025 4621 views 35 likes

Plato sailing to the Netherlands by boat

Science & Exploration

Plato arrived at ESA’s test centre by boat

11/09/2025 4279 views 45 likes

ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher addresses a gathering in Tallinn

Estonia celebrates 10 years in ESA

05/09/2025 1329 views 19 likes

LEO-PNT satellites orbiting

Galileo ‘daughter mission’ name revealed: Celeste

04/09/2025 6161 views 54 likes

Second MTG-Imager in the thermal vacuum chamber

Second MTG-Imager satellite passes thermal vacuum test

04/09/2025 2267 views 37 likes

First glimpse of MetOp-SG-A1 Microwave Sounder data

New MetOp Second Generation weather satellite returns first…

02/09/2025 10075 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 9965 views 68 likes

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

Science & Exploration

Dusty wisps round a dusty disc

29/08/2025 3958 views 68 likes

ESA's Ramses mission at the asteroid Apophis

ESA and JAXA advance potential Apophis mission collaboration

27/08/2025 4146 views 61 likes

Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302 (Webb & ALMA image)

Science & Exploration

Webb investigates complex heart of a cosmic butterfly

27/08/2025 10635 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 8237 views 53 likes

Soil moisture anomalies over 2024 compared to 1991–2020

ESA data records help underpin climate change report

25/08/2025 3225 views 63 likes

Enabling & Support

Juice team resolves anomaly on approach to Venus

25/08/2025 17297 views 98 likes

Iberian fires August 2025

Iberian wildfires seen from space

20/08/2025 11209 views 64 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite small but perfectly formed

ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite adds power to forecasts

18/08/2025 4302 views 64 likes

Penguins resting on Antarctic sea ice

Tracking the climate-driven shift in Antarctic plankton fro…

13/08/2025 3206 views 56 likes

Science & Exploration

No Earth-like atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1 d

13/08/2025 5049 views 43 likes

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

First MetOp-SG and Sentinel-5 launched

13/08/2025 8723 views 51 likes

Model of the distribution of space debris around Earth

CREAM: avoiding collisions in space through automation

12/08/2025 5782 views 63 likes

Science & Exploration

Webb finds new hints for planet around closest solar twin

07/08/2025 5210 views 52 likes

Asteroid (18805) Kellyday

First asteroid sightings push Hera’s camera to the limit

06/08/2025 5593 views 63 likes

Mars Express views Acheron Fossae’s western fringes

Science & Exploration

When martian ground falls apart

06/08/2025 3933 views 69 likes

Encapsulating MetOp-SG-A1 satellite in Ariane 6 fairing

First MetOp-SG satellite sealed within Ariane 6 fairing

05/08/2025 4156 views 54 likes

Global map of vegetation optical depth, 2018

SMOS adds long-term view on carbon stored in forests

01/08/2025 2966 views 53 likes

ESA Open Days 2025

Celebrating 50 years of ESA at Open Days 2025

01/08/2025 12998 views 214 likes

European forests

A troubling shift in Europe’s forest carbon balance

30/07/2025 2191 views 9 likes

NGC 6072 (NIRCam image)

Science & Exploration

Webb traces details of complex planetary nebula

30/07/2025 2741 views 14 likes

Harder Glacier, northern Greenland

Greenland subglacial flood bursts through ice sheet surface

30/07/2025 5867 views 42 likes

Fuelling MetOp-SG-A1

First MetOp Second Generation satellite fuelled

24/07/2025 2715 views 32 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-6B on route to launch site

Sea-level monitoring satellite Sentinel-6B sets sail

23/07/2025 3504 views 34 likes

MetOp Second Generation A-type satellite

Watch: MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 media briefing

23/07/2025 2063 views 39 likes

Deployment of largest Mars parachute on Earth

Science & Exploration

ExoMars parachutes ready for martian deployment

21/07/2025 8265 views 78 likes

First radargram from Juice’s RIME instrument

Science & Exploration

New Apollo Earthrise view shows Juice’s RIME working well

18/07/2025 5155 views 73 likes

Φsat-2 view of Bahia Blanca Estuary in Argentina

Φsat-2 begins science phase for AI Earth images

15/07/2025 3478 views 45 likes

Smile sees the light

Science & Exploration

Smile passes gruelling set of tests

15/07/2025 3113 views 40 likes

Ignis patch in Cupola

Science & Exploration

Ignis mission highlights

15/07/2025 4209 views 73 likes

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

ESA Council receives Anniversary Statement

11/07/2025 843 views 4 likes

Cat’s Paw Nebula (NIRCam)

Science & Exploration

Webb scratches under Cat’s Paw Nebula for third anniversary

10/07/2025 6352 views 65 likes

NASA's Psyche mission

Enabling & Support

Europe's first deep-space optical communication link

10/07/2025 13625 views 90 likes

Space Rider model ready to drop

Enabling & Support

Closing the loop: new Space Rider drop test

09/07/2025 5636 views 43 likes

European Launcher Challenge

Enabling & Support

European Launcher Challenge: preselected challengers unveil…

07/07/2025 19612 views 112 likes

Southern Ocean sea ice

Antarctic waters getting saltier as sea ice wanes

04/07/2025 4773 views 52 likes

ESA observes interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

ESA tracks rare interstellar comet

03/07/2025 79656 views 498 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 4482 views 54 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 6131 views 38 likes

Science & Exploration

A pinch of France in space

01/07/2025 2776 views 32 likes

MTG-S1 hosting Sentinel-4 encapsulation family photo

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

30/06/2025 3695 views 45 likes

Asteroid - artist's impression

Will asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the Moon?

30427 views 66 likes

The global ocean conveyor belt

New ESA gravity mission to detect weakening ocean conveyor

26/06/2025 5311 views 47 likes

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