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Extended reality at ESA

Enabling & Support

Extended Reality at ESA opens new pathways for space explor…

07/05/2026 650 views 11 likes

Airship over Sodankylä

Putting the ‘super’ into a supersite for Earth observation

06/05/2026 980 views 34 likes

Star-forming regions in M51

Science & Exploration

Webb & Hubble find massive star clusters emerge faster

06/05/2026 2995 views 46 likes

ESA astronaut Thomas Cross on the uncharted planet Persephone

ESA and DON’T NOD team up on a journey to the planet Persep…

06/05/2026 3522 views 33 likes

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

Launch boosts European Earth monitoring and connectivity

04/05/2026 1960 views 38 likes

The Sentinel-1 mission

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

01/05/2026 4100 views 54 likes

Ariane 6 lifts off for flight VA268

Enabling & Support

Another one: Ariane 6 flies with four boosters once more

30/04/2026 5412 views 44 likes

Team preparing the plasma wind tunnel

Enabling & Support

Plasma-hot Space Rider tests for belly and flaps

29/04/2026 1343 views 32 likes

Gallery forests of the Angola–DRC borderlands

Stunning images from Biomass mark its one year in orbit

29/04/2026 3340 views 72 likes

Not your normal commute

Braving the Arctic for upcoming polar-focused satellites

24/04/2026 2033 views 53 likes

Smile delivered to space (artist impression, GIF)

Science & Exploration

Smile set to launch on 19 May

23/04/2026 4486 views 43 likes

Close-up of Plato’s cameras

Science & Exploration

Plato aces space-like tests

23/04/2026 4271 views 41 likes

First full-size Space Rider test model assembled

Enabling & Support

Space Rider drop model ready to glide

22/04/2026 11968 views 52 likes

Desert locust

Turning data from space into action for Earth

22/04/2026 1832 views 33 likes

Strong gravitational lenses captured by Euclid

Science & Exploration

Euclid Space Warps: help spot galaxies bending spacetime

21/04/2026 5810 views 85 likes

Trifid Nebula (Wide Field Camera 3 Image)

Science & Exploration

Hubble turns 36 with a dazzling Trifid Nebula portrait

20/04/2026 6816 views 56 likes

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

Three ESA-built satellites on show in France

16/04/2026 3181 views 57 likes

Salps

Antarctica’s vanishing sea ice transforms marine life

15/04/2026 2250 views 60 likes

Mars Express captures dark ash covering Mars’s Utopia Planitia

Science & Exploration

Ash creeps across Mars

15/04/2026 11683 views 86 likes

HydRON optical communication for broadband in space

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

15/04/2026 1922 views 48 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 3624 views 48 likes

Science & Exploration

Artemis II: splashdown

11/04/2026 8070 views 93 likes

ESA’s Celeste broadcasts first navigation signal

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

10/04/2026 3999 views 41 likes

ESA Education's Moon Camp and Mission X School Projects

Walk in the footsteps of Artemis

07/04/2026 3088 views 35 likes

Light hits graphene aerogel

Science & Exploration

Graphene and lasers for space propulsion

07/04/2026 4454 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 12759 views 128 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 44470 views 292 likes

Géraldine Naja takes up duty as Director of Space Transport…

01/04/2026 1889 views 25 likes

Christine Klein takes up duty as acting Director of Control…

01/04/2026 1106 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 2169 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 6208 views 71 likes

Italy’s IRIDE space programme adds eight satellites

Eight more satellites added to IRIDE space programme

31/03/2026 1858 views 39 likes

Dividing Earth and Moon

Science & Exploration

European Service Module engines powering Artemis II

30/03/2026 25301 views 253 likes

Liftoff for Celeste on Rocket Lab's Electron rocket

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

28/03/2026 4391 views 54 likes

Medicane Jolina from MSG

Getting to the core of a medicane

27/03/2026 4159 views 41 likes

Saturn (2024 Webb & Hubble images)

Science & Exploration

Webb & Hubble capture new views of Saturn

25/03/2026 8034 views 81 likes

Sentinel-6B release into orbit

2026 European Space for Sustainability Award is now open fo…

25/03/2026 1793 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 2320 views 44 likes

Gamma-Cas and its hungry white dwarf companion

Science & Exploration

XRISM solves famous star’s 50-year mystery

24/03/2026 4494 views 69 likes

Mackenzie River

Tracking Arctic freshwater flow from space

23/03/2026 1598 views 31 likes

Smile delivered to space (artist impression, GIF)

Science & Exploration

T-20 days: Smile to launch on 9 April

20/03/2026 3396 views 39 likes

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS; Nov 2025)

Science & Exploration

Hubble unexpectedly catches comet breaking up

18/03/2026 3463 views 56 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite like a bird

OHB Sweden to build Sterna weather constellation

18/03/2026 2220 views 30 likes

Hera approaching Didymos asteroids

Hera on course for asteroid rendezvous

17/03/2026 3963 views 75 likes

ESA recruits

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

16/03/2026 33967 views 95 likes

CryoSat views a geomagnetic storm

How does an ice satellite detect a geomagnetic storm?

16/03/2026 2421 views 53 likes

Smile arrives at Europe's Spaceport

Science & Exploration

Smile arrives at Europe’s Spaceport

09/03/2026 2858 views 30 likes

ESA analysing fireball over Europe on 8 March 2026

09/03/2026 23434 views 85 likes

Women flying spacecraft at ESA mission control

Enabling & Support

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

09/03/2026 3008 views 62 likes

Meet ESA’s newest female leadership

Meet ESA’s newest female leadership

06/03/2026 5633 views 51 likes

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