News - ESA

2026-06-27, 08:00 ESA

These Copernicus Sentinel-2 images show agricultural development in the desert of southern Egypt, close to the border with Sudan.Egypt is over 95% desert, making a very small proportion of its land ...

2026-06-25, 08:30 ESA

At 15:24 CEST on 15 June 2026, a faint blue glow in space was switched off for the last time. After powering BepiColombo's eight-year journey across the inner Solar System, the spacecraft's solar ...

2026-06-23, 08:50 ESA

Yesterday, at 10:24 CEST, the Sun reached its most northerly point in the sky, marking the longest day of the year and the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, when Earth's North Pole is ...

2026-06-20, 08:30 ESA

ESA's Earth from Space series reaches its 1000th image with a return to the vibrant waters of southern Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas – the same region featured in the very first edition in ...

2026-06-19, 08:30 ESA

The countdown is on for scientists, researchers and Earth observation experts eager to help shape the future of the European Space Agency's Earth Explorer satellite series. Registration is closing ...

2026-06-18, 08:40 ESA

Europe's pioneering Copernicus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Monitoring mission has cleared a significant development milestone, marking further progress towards a new era of greenhouse gas monitoring ...

2026-06-16, 08:50 ESA

Satellite measurements are showing a sharp surge in sea-surface temperatures across the tropical Pacific in recent months – the clearest early signal that El Niño is back.This powerful climate ...

2026-06-16, 08:40 ESA

The Meteosat Third Generation-Imager-2 (MTG-I2) satellite has arrived at Pariacabo harbour in French Guiana, ready to be transported to Europe's Spaceport.Having spent around two weeks at sea, ...

2026-06-14, 19:00 ESA

Earth's river deltas, home to about 5% of the global population and some of the world's major cities, are experiencing subsidence, which exacerbates the risks from sea-level rise. The Copernicus ...

2026-06-13, 10:10 ESA

This radar image from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission captures Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, the surrounding countryside and the Rio de la Plata estuary.Zoom in to explore this image at ...