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…

Ariane 6: liftoff to orbit – uninterrupted

17 minutes full video of an onboard camera on Europe’s heavy lift rocket Ariane 6, showing…

ESA – Land carbon dynamics

Understanding Earth’s carbon cycle is critical to climate action. ESA’s Climate Change Initiative RECCAP-2 project uses…