ESA – Circling a martian butterfly

ESA’s Mars Express takes us on a dizzying flight around a butterfly crater on Mars. A butterfly…

EarthCARE’s instruments work in synergy to improve climate models

True to its promise, the European Space Agency’s EarthCARE satellite is now being used to calculate directly how…

Vega-C VV28

Launch of Vega-C VV28 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, on 1 December 2025 at 14:21…

Bird’s-eye view: the butterflies and dark layers of Idaeus Fossae

This view was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and colour channels of…

30 years of SOHO imaging the Sun (animated)

The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has been observing the Sun for 30 years. In that time, SOHO has observed nearly…

Webb observes a dance of dwarf galaxies

For this new ESA/Webb Picture of the Month, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has spied a…

ESA – Flooding in Sri Lanka

Puttalam district in North Western Sri Lanka is currently facing severe flooding, landslides and rockfalls, caused…

ESA – Paxi on the ISS

Rockets are how we send humans and satellites to space. Nowadays there are a variety of…

ESA – HydroGNSS launch highlights

ESA’s first Scout mission, HydroGNSS, was launched on 19 November 2025, marking a significant step in…

ESA’s HydroGNSS mission lifts off

ESA’s first Scout mission, HydroGNSS, was launched on 28 November 2025, marking a significant step in…