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Deployment of largest Mars parachute on Earth

Science & Exploration

ExoMars parachutes ready for martian deployment

21/07/2025 8671 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 5722 views 74 likes

Φsat-2 view of Bahia Blanca Estuary in Argentina

Φsat-2 begins science phase for AI Earth images

15/07/2025 3800 views 45 likes

Smile sees the light

Science & Exploration

Smile passes gruelling set of tests

15/07/2025 3557 views 40 likes

Ignis patch in Cupola

Science & Exploration

Ignis mission highlights

15/07/2025 4661 views 74 likes

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

ESA Council receives Anniversary Statement

11/07/2025 920 views 4 likes

Cat’s Paw Nebula (NIRCam)

Science & Exploration

Webb scratches under Cat’s Paw Nebula for third anniversary

10/07/2025 6694 views 66 likes

NASA's Psyche mission

Enabling & Support

Europe's first deep-space optical communication link

10/07/2025 15140 views 92 likes

Space Rider model ready to drop

Enabling & Support

Closing the loop: new Space Rider drop test

09/07/2025 6085 views 43 likes

European Launcher Challenge visual

Enabling & Support

European Launcher Challenge: preselected challengers unveil…

07/07/2025 20417 views 112 likes

Southern Ocean sea ice

Antarctic waters getting saltier as sea ice wanes

04/07/2025 5242 views 53 likes

ESA observes interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

ESA tracks rare interstellar comet

03/07/2025 81614 views 501 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 4890 views 56 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 6911 views 38 likes

Science & Exploration

A pinch of France in space

01/07/2025 3299 views 36 likes

MTG-S1 hosting Sentinel-4 encapsulation family photo

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

30/06/2025 3851 views 45 likes

Asteroid - artist's impression

Will asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the Moon?

40761 views 72 likes

The global ocean conveyor belt

New ESA gravity mission to detect weakening ocean conveyor

26/06/2025 6082 views 47 likes

Arcadia Planitia as seen by ESA’s Mars Express

Science & Exploration

Earth tones on Mars

26/06/2025 4822 views 47 likes

Fire driving deforestation

Satellite records expose fire driving Gran Chaco transforma…

26/06/2025 2929 views 37 likes

High-contrast coronograph image of TWA 7b

Science & Exploration

Webb finds evidence of a lightweight planet around TWA 7

25/06/2025 38013 views 101 likes

Majuro, Marshal Islands, is at risk from sea-level rise

First sea-level records for coastal community protection

25/06/2025 2124 views 38 likes

Volcanic eruption Iceland

North Atlantic’s volcanic secrets – it’s about being thin

24/06/2025 2500 views 48 likes

Bolivian forest and landscape from Biomass

Biomass satellite returns striking first images of forests …

23/06/2025 45625 views 143 likes

Director General Josef Aschbacher invites attendees at the International Paris Air Show to share some cake marking the 50th anniversary of the ESA Convention.

ESA at Le Bourget 2025 - Day Four Highlights

19/06/2025 1490 views 18 likes

Astronomers discover vast filament of ‘missing’ matter

Science & Exploration

“The models were right”: astronomers find ‘missing’ matter

19/06/2025 23768 views 80 likes

Solar corona viewed by Proba-3’s ASPIICS

Enabling & Support

Proba-3’s first artificial solar eclipse

16/06/2025 38030 views 145 likes

A view of the ESA Exhibition at the International Paris Air Show, Le Bourget

Join ESA at the International Paris Air Show 2025

11/06/2025 3767 views 41 likes

Solar Orbiter's view of the Sun's south pole

Science & Exploration

Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s poles

11/06/2025 83857 views 139 likes

On 31 May, a live performance of The Blue Danube – often referred to as the ‘anthem of space’ – was transmitted by the European Space Agency (ESA) into the vastness of space. The event marked a double celebration: ESA’s 50th anniversary and the 200th birthday of the King of Waltz Johann Strauss II.

The Blue Danube Waltz sent into the stars

05/06/2025 2225 views 26 likes

MTG-Sounder satellite over the equator

Why MTG-S1 is a nowcasting game-changer

05/06/2025 4798 views 70 likes

Flyeye's view of the Andromeda galaxy

ESA’s new asteroid hunter opens its eye to the sky

05/06/2025 8553 views 87 likes

ESA’s ocean training expedition arrives in Nice

Tall ship brings ESA ocean science training to Nice

04/06/2025 3971 views 32 likes

Sentinel-4 on MTG-S

A breath of fresh data: Sentinel-4 innovates for clean air

04/06/2025 2475 views 23 likes

ispace's RESILIENCE lander and TENACIOUS micro rover on the Moon

Enabling & Support

ESA supports Moon mission carrying first European rover

03/06/2025 8105 views 73 likes

Milky Way and Andromeda encounters

Science & Exploration

Hubble and Gaia revisit fate of our galaxy

02/06/2025 7129 views 62 likes

Simulated moonwalk shot

Science & Exploration

How to capture Moon landing videos – from grainy to HD

28/05/2025 5043 views 45 likes

Site of the European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Centre (ESDI) at Park Innovaare in Villigen, Switzerland

Inauguration of the European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Cen…

27/05/2025 5635 views 47 likes

Running on treadmill during parabolic flight

Science & Exploration

Prostheses fit to Fly!

27/05/2025 2342 views 36 likes

Science & Exploration

Recipe for a ‘rocky road’ crater soaked in martian history

21/05/2025 3332 views 52 likes

Ramses mission patch

Second CubeSat joins ESA’s Ramses mission to asteroid Apoph…

20/05/2025 4446 views 70 likes

Titan (Webb image - 11 July 2023)

Science & Exploration

Titan forecast: partly cloudy with a chance of methane show…

14/05/2025 3373 views 58 likes

Galileo In-Orbit Validation satellite

Thank you for your service, Galileo GSAT0104

13/05/2025 5891 views 62 likes

Close-up observations of auroras on Jupiter (December 2023)

Science & Exploration

Webb reveals new details and mysteries in Jupiter’s aurora

12/05/2025 5345 views 52 likes

Night-time light emissions during blackout in Spain and Portugal

Science & Exploration

Back to light

12/05/2025 6703 views 54 likes

Save the date: 16–22 June - ESA at the Paris Air Show

12/05/2025 2535 views 25 likes

Proba-3 Occulter eclipsing Sun for Coronagraph spacecraft

Enabling & Support

Proba-3 achieves precise formation flying

08/05/2025 9249 views 74 likes

Plato’s 24 newly installed cameras

Science & Exploration

Plato grows its many eyes

08/05/2025 5231 views 61 likes

Dotson Ice Shelf from Sentinel-1

Antarctic glacier caught stealing ice from neighbour

08/05/2025 19029 views 56 likes

MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 arrive in Florida

MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 take a step closer to space

07/05/2025 2588 views 34 likes

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