Smile is a brand-new space mission currently in the making. It will study how Earth responds to…
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ESA – Flying for the Moon
How do you prepare for life on the Moon? Start with a flight that bends gravity.…
ESA – SOHO observes comet 3I/ATLAS
The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured a glimpse of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 15–26 October 2026.…
Finding star clusters in the Lost Galaxy
Today’s ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million light-years away…
Earth from Space: The Danakil Depression
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over one of Earth’s most extreme environments: the Danakil Depression…
ESA – The epic adventures of BepiColombo
Bepi, Mio and MTM’s adventures continue! What have they achieved on their extraordinary journey to Mercury,…
ESA – ESA’s Argonaut press conference
The press conference, at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, follows the signing of contracts…
Earth from Space: Ghostly lake
To celebrate Halloween, we bring you these spooky sights of Lake Carnegie in Australia, captured from…
ESA – HydroGNSS pre-launch media briefing
Watch the replay of the HydroGNSS pre-launch media briefing, which took place on Monday 3 November…
Bright fireball spotted by ESA’s meteor detection station in Cáceres, Spain
On 2 November 2025 at 20:41 CET, ESA’s AMS82, a meteor detection station located in Casas de Millán, Cáceres, Spain, recorded a bright bolide…