News - ESA

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 ...

2026-06-12, 20:50 ESA

The World Settlement Footprint (WSF) Tracker, and its dedicated online platform, have been officially released at an event at the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC.The platform enables users ...

2026-06-11, 09:10 ESA

For decades, economic growth and fossil-fuel consumption have been tightly intertwined. As cities have expanded, rising prosperity has often been accompanied by worsening air pollution. New research, ...

2026-06-11, 08:50 ESA

The European Space Agency has awarded the contract to lead the development and build for two Copernicus Sentinel-1 Next Generation satellites to Thales Alenia Space. Building on the success of the ...

2026-06-09, 09:20 ESA

Each year, the world's leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their assessments draw heavily on data from Earth-observing satellites – and the ...