ESA open day in the Netherlands 2019

With over 14 000 registrations for ESA’s Open Day in the Netherlands on 6 October 2019…

Antarctic mist

Image: As the Northern hemisphere tucks into longer nights, Antarctica bursts into its season of sunlight.…

Tracking Typhoon Hagibis from space

Hagibis was the biggest typhoon to hit Japan in decades. With extreme events like this likely…

Hubble captures cosmic face

In celebration of Halloween, this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures two galaxies…

A ghost in the Pleiades

Image: This ghostly image shows what can happen when an interstellar cloud passes too close to…

Contract seals deal for Biomass satellite’s ride into space

Today, ESA and Arianespace signed a contract that secures the launch of the Earth Explorer Biomass…

Cheops team in Kourou

The Cheops satellite with representatives from ESA, Airbus and CNES at Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French…

Is Earth on fire?

Wildfires have been making headlines again this month, with multiple fires burning in Lebanon and California,…

European network of operations centres takes shape

ESA and the French Space Agency, CNES, have signed an important agreement that will see the…

Leelanau Peninsula, US

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Leelanau Peninsula on the northwest coast of Northern…