Smile launch and solar panel deployment (artist impression)

3… 2… 1… lift off! The joint European-Chinese Smile mission will launch this spring from Europe’s…

Sophie Adenot exercising on the CEVIS bike

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, currently on the International Space Station for the εpsilon mission, exercises on the CEVIS bike just a few days…

ESA’s 5G laboratory on wheels

A dark blue van stands at the ready in front of a 25-metre-wide antenna, framed by…

ESA – Uranus rotation in timelapse

This timelapse shows a full rotation of Uranus captured by NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Thanks to its orbit at L2, Webb was able to observe the…

ESA – Uranus (January 2025)

For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’s…

ESA – Celeste

The world runs on invisible satellite navigation signals: they fuel our society, generate economic growth and…

Rising ocean-surface temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea

Each year, the world’s leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet…

Space safety hazards: space weather

Solar storms can put on beautiful light shows in the night sky, known as auroras. But…

Galaxy field of low-surface-brightness galaxy CDG-2

The low-surface-brightness galaxy CDG-2, shown in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is dominated…

ESA – Yellow River Delta, China

This image of the Yellow River Delta and its surrounding basin was acquired on 08 February…