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Smile delivered to space (artist impression, GIF)

Science & Exploration

Smile set to launch on 19 May

23/04/2026 928 views 12 likes

Close-up of Plato’s cameras

Science & Exploration

Plato aces space-like tests

23/04/2026 1684 views 22 likes

First full-size Space Rider test model assembled

Enabling & Support

Space Rider drop model ready to glide

22/04/2026 2287 views 36 likes

Desert locust

Turning data from space into action for Earth

22/04/2026 1139 views 27 likes

Strong gravitational lenses captured by Euclid

Science & Exploration

Euclid Space Warps: help spot galaxies bending spacetime

21/04/2026 3693 views 51 likes

Trifid Nebula (Wide Field Camera 3 Image)

Science & Exploration

Hubble turns 36 with a dazzling Trifid Nebula portrait

20/04/2026 4481 views 34 likes

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

Three ESA-built satellites on show in France

16/04/2026 2775 views 57 likes

Salps

Antarctica’s vanishing sea ice transforms marine life

15/04/2026 2013 views 58 likes

Mars Express captures dark ash covering Mars’s Utopia Planitia

Science & Exploration

Ash creeps across Mars

15/04/2026 9928 views 82 likes

HydRON optical communication for broadband in space

ESA begins next phase of 'fibre in the sky' optical communi…

15/04/2026 1697 views 47 likes

Imaged of processed Proba-3 data that highlights movement around the Sun

Science & Exploration

First Proba-3 science: surprisingly speedy solar wind

13/04/2026 3173 views 47 likes

Science & Exploration

Artemis II: splashdown

11/04/2026 7652 views 91 likes

ESA’s Celeste broadcasts first navigation signal

ESA’s Celeste broadcasts first navigation signal from low E…

10/04/2026 3687 views 41 likes

ESA Education's Moon Camp and Mission X School Projects

Walk in the footsteps of Artemis

07/04/2026 2848 views 34 likes

Light hits graphene aerogel

Science & Exploration

Graphene and lasers for space propulsion

07/04/2026 3877 views 36 likes

Comet 3I/ATLAS seen by Juice’s science camera

Science & Exploration

Five things Juice has revealed about Comet 3I/ATLAS

02/04/2026 11827 views 121 likes

The Artemis II rocket, with Orion and its European Service Module on top, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Science & Exploration

Artemis II mission begins

02/04/2026 43876 views 291 likes

Géraldine Naja takes up duty as Director of Space Transport…

01/04/2026 1798 views 25 likes

Christine Klein takes up duty as acting Director of Control…

01/04/2026 1026 views 29 likes

View from orbit as satellites are deployed during the Transporter‑16 rideshare mission.

Seven missions launched to test optimised data transfer fro…

31/03/2026 2038 views 40 likes

ESA engineer Luca Fossati in Orion's Mission Evaluation Room in an Artemis II simulation

Science & Exploration

European eyes on Artemis

31/03/2026 6083 views 71 likes

Italy’s IRIDE space programme adds eight satellites

Eight more satellites added to IRIDE space programme

31/03/2026 1693 views 39 likes

Dividing Earth and Moon

Science & Exploration

European Service Module engines powering Artemis II

30/03/2026 24729 views 251 likes

Liftoff for Celeste on Rocket Lab's Electron rocket

Celeste’s first satellites launched to explore LEO-based sa…

28/03/2026 4204 views 54 likes

Medicane Jolina from MSG

Getting to the core of a medicane

27/03/2026 3975 views 41 likes

Saturn (2024 Webb & Hubble images)

Science & Exploration

Webb & Hubble capture new views of Saturn

25/03/2026 7650 views 79 likes

Sentinel-6B release into orbit

2026 European Space for Sustainability Award is now open fo…

25/03/2026 1682 views 23 likes

Carbon monoxide emissions over central South America, September 2024

Amazon wildfire emissions up to three times higher than est…

25/03/2026 2158 views 44 likes

Gamma-Cas and its hungry white dwarf companion

Science & Exploration

XRISM solves famous star’s 50-year mystery

24/03/2026 4302 views 69 likes

Mackenzie River

Tracking Arctic freshwater flow from space

23/03/2026 1531 views 31 likes

Smile delivered to space (artist impression, GIF)

Science & Exploration

T-20 days: Smile to launch on 9 April

20/03/2026 3234 views 39 likes

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS; Nov 2025)

Science & Exploration

Hubble unexpectedly catches comet breaking up

18/03/2026 2927 views 56 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite like a bird

OHB Sweden to build Sterna weather constellation

18/03/2026 2122 views 30 likes

Hera approaching Didymos asteroids

Hera on course for asteroid rendezvous

17/03/2026 3775 views 75 likes

ESA recruits

A stellar year for talent: more than 400 job opportunities …

16/03/2026 30976 views 82 likes

CryoSat views a geomagnetic storm

How does an ice satellite detect a geomagnetic storm?

16/03/2026 2352 views 53 likes

Smile arrives at Europe's Spaceport

Science & Exploration

Smile arrives at Europe’s Spaceport

09/03/2026 2773 views 29 likes

ESA analysing fireball over Europe on 8 March 2026

09/03/2026 23118 views 83 likes

Women flying spacecraft at ESA mission control

Enabling & Support

"She flies satellites. One day, I can too."

09/03/2026 2841 views 59 likes

Meet ESA’s newest female leadership

Meet ESA’s newest female leadership

06/03/2026 5379 views 50 likes

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

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not impact the Moon

05/03/2026 9319 views 56 likes

Coronal mass ejection on 27 May 2024

Science & Exploration

ESA’s Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the Red Plan…

05/03/2026 10540 views 62 likes

Counting craters in Mars’s ancient highlands

Science & Exploration

Counting craters

04/03/2026 3206 views 50 likes

Hubble & Euclid: zoom into Cat's Eye Nebula

Science & Exploration

Hubble & Euclid zoom into cosmic eye

03/03/2026 8551 views 77 likes

Grounding line retreat on West Antarctica, 1992-2025

Antarctica retreat study signals future ice loss

03/03/2026 3891 views 58 likes

Self-healable Cassandra demonstrator

Enabling & Support

Self-repairing spacecraft could change future missions

03/03/2026 3636 views 42 likes

Aircraft in Nimes, France, ready to test Airbus' UltraAir laser terminal

World-first gigabit-per-second laser link between aircraft …

26/02/2026 16613 views 49 likes

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

First MetOp Second Generation-B satellite spreads its wing

25/02/2026 2092 views 62 likes

Greta fires up

Enabling & Support

Greta rocket engine completes first test campaign

25/02/2026 3541 views 62 likes

Smile leaving Saint-Nazaire in France

Science & Exploration

Smile sets sail for Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana

20/02/2026 3051 views 37 likes

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