From the Minoans to satellite metrology

The Minoans were a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization (c. 3100–1100 BC) on Crete and widely regarded…

ESA – Galileo pre-launch media briefing

Watch the replay of the media briefing held ahead of the 14th operational launch of the…

A storm of new stars

The subject of the latest Hubble Picture of the Week is a stormy and highly active spiral galaxy named NGC…

ESA – ROSE-L on the shaker

A structural model of the upcoming Copernicus Radar Observing System for Europe at L-band satellite, or…

Earth from Space: Singing dunes and mysterious lakes

This Copernicus Sentinel-1 image features part of the Badain Jaran Desert in northwestern China. Zoom in…

ESA – Hubble reobserves 3I/ATLAS

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 30 November with its Wide Field…

Comet 3I/ATLAS shows activity in Juice navigation camera teaser

During November 2025, ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) used five of its science instruments to…

Europe’s next mission to Venus – Envision this (introduction)

Meet Envision. Europe’s next mission to Venus. Planned for launch in 2031. Envision will study Venus from…

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…