Space Station call with French President Emmanuel Macron

Video: 00:20:53 ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet had a call with the French President Emmanuel Macron on…

Explore ESA’s interactive Climate Change Kit

Arguably, humankind has never been more aware of the jeopardy we and the planet face because…

Biomass: weighing Earth’s forest from space

Around 30% of Earth’s land surface is covered by forest. Absorbing around 8 Gigatonnes a year…

La Palma volcano zoom

La Palma volcano zoom Click here for original story, La Palma volcano zoom …

TRUTHS

The TRUTHS satellite carries two main instruments: the Cryogenic Solar Absolute Radiometer (CSAR) and the Hyperspectral…

ESA and GHGSat support new International Methane Emissions Observatory

In the first 20 years of reaching the atmosphere, methane has more than 80 times the…

A Dragon awaits

A timelapse of Launchpad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, where the SpaceX…

Meltwater runoff from Greenland becoming more erratic

As world leaders and decision-makers join forces at COP26 to accelerate action towards the goals of…

Best of Alpha mission timelapse

A collection of the best timelapse videos made during ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s second mission to…

Extreme ice melt in Greenland

New findings, published in Nature Communications and based on measurements from ESA’s CryoSat, reveal that Greenland’s…