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Flash detection by MTG-LI of the widely observed fireball from 8 March 2026.

MTG-LI detection of 22 January 2026 fireball over the Gulf of Aden. The observed signal shows a gradual increase in brightness as the meteor penetrates deeper into the atmosphere, before rapidly fading as it fragments or burns up.

ESA and JAXA deepen collaboration in planetary defence

Poster for ESA's Swing and Sawa space weather missions

ROSIE radio telescope logo

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ROSIE solar radio telescope

Hera mission poster

Hera mission timeline

James Webb Space Telescope spots faint asteroid 2024 YR4 - 18 February 2026

James Webb Space Telescope spots faint asteroid 2024 YR4 - 26 February 2026

Orbital inclination of asteroid Didymos

ESA Space Safety Fleet

Ramses contract signature 10 February 2026

Ramses CubeSat 'Farinella' contract signature

Spacecraft operations engineer Beatriz Abascal Palacios checks if all is in order after command upload

Swing mission infographic

Swing: ESA's first nanosatellite for space weather monitoring

Aurora over the Netherlands, January 2026

X-class solar flare observed on 18 January 2026

Coronal Mass Ejection erupts from the Sun on 18 January 2026

Severe space weather event on 18 January 2026

Flyeye poster

Draco mission poster

ESA's Planetary Defence team

Asteroids named after ESA people and places in 2025

Celebrating asteroid ESOC

Ramses mission poster

An airplane in front of the Sun

ESA's Draco mission: inside a fiery reentry

RISE mission poster

Vigil mission poster

Observation of 40 000 near-Earth Asteroids

Radio interference from the 11 November 2025 flare as observed in Austria, provided by eCallisto radiospectrograms, a federated product from the Institute for Data Science (FHNW).

Observation of the Sun in extreme ultraviolet by the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s AIA instrument on 11 November, provided by the Royal Observatory of Belgium / SIDC.

Summary of the space weather event triggered on 11 November 2025 and its consequences

Rumba was observed from ESA's Optical Ground Station on 21 October, shortly before Rumba reentered the atmosphere.

The space environment health index in 2025 shows our current behaviour is not sustainable over time.

ESA Space Environment 2025 figure 4

Distribution of space debris around Earth

Space weather simulation exercice at ESOC

The exercise replicated the effects of a catastrophic solar storm on satellite operations to test the team’s ability to respond without satellite navigation and under severe electronic disruption.

Video of the explosion of the Sun during the 2003 Halloween solar storm, captured by the EIT instrument onboard the ESA/NASA SOHO satellite. Snow-like lines in the images correspond to the saturation of the camera detectors due to the impact of high-energy particles originated in the solar active region.

ESA spots asteroid that made very close approach to Earth

Asteroid 2023 CX1 observed prior to impact

Space Safety brochure front

Close approach of asteroid 2025 FA22

Locations of lunar impact flashes detected by the NELIOTA project

RISE: Extending missions in geostationary orbit

Draco mission patch

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