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2025-10-24, 13:40 ESA

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures the meandering course of the Likouala-aux-Herbes river in the Republic of the Congo.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m ...

2025-10-23, 18:00 ESA

23 October 2025The 337th meeting of ESA Council took place at the European Space Agency's headquarters in Paris on 23 and 24 October 2025. As detailed separately, Cyprus has signed its Associate ...

2025-10-22, 08:10 ESA

The new Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission has delivered its first images, highlighting concentrations of atmospheric nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and ozone. Despite being preliminary, these images ...

2025-10-20, 13:40 ESA

The launch campaign of the next satellite to join the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission is progressing on schedule for launch on Tuesday, 4 November, on board an Ariane 6 rocket.The Sentinel-1 mission ...

2025-10-17, 13:40 ESA

The changing face of the Chilean glaciers in the Laguna San Rafael National Park is featured in these satellite images from 1987 and 2024.Located on the Pacific coast of southern Chile, the park ...

2025-10-16, 08:00 ESA

No communication or navigation, faulty electronics and collision risk. At ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, teams faced a scenario unlike any before: a solar storm of extreme magnitude. ...

2025-10-14, 16:40 ESA

Is there life on Terran V? Join the adventure to the fictional planet and find out what it takes to reach the farthest frontiers of deep space.This video uses a fictional spacecraft and a fictional ...

2025-10-13, 19:20 ESA

The week began on 6 October in Toruń, the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus. Nearly 400 schoolchildren filled the city's planetarium to meet Sławosz and hear about his time in orbit. The setting ...

2025-10-13, 18:20 ESA

Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency's Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have discovered that the weak region in Earth's magnetic field over the South ...

2025-10-11, 08:10 ESA

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures an active lava lake on the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island.Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution.Located ...