News - ESA

2025-05-26, 19:20 ESA

26 May 2025Journalists are invited to attend one of the largest Earth observation conferences in the world: the European Space Agency's (ESA) Living Planet Symposium, which will be held in Vienna, ...

2025-05-23, 12:50 ESA

Lake Alakol in eastern Kazakhstan is featured in this radar image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-1.Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution or click on the circles. Although radar ...

2025-05-23, 08:00 ESA

On the morning of 4 June 2025, ESA offers media representatives the exclusive opportunity to step aboard the iconic Norwegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl, docked at Quai Amiral Infernet in Nice, ...

2025-05-16, 20:40 ESA

Mars Express mission operators at ESOC successfully sent a new software patch that would allow the spacecraft to operate in its third decade.A space mission is as durable as its most critical ...

2025-05-16, 11:20 ESA

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission brings us this cloud-free view of Svalbard, a remote Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click ...

2025-05-15, 18:40 ESA

ESA's forest mission Biomass will be supported by a custom-built transponder antenna installed in New Norcia, Australia.The satellite will fly over the transponder to calibrate its instrument during ...

2025-05-13, 17:40 ESA

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Planetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars (Plato) mission is gearing up to explore one of science's biggest questions: are there other Earth-like planets out ...

2025-05-10, 08:00 ESA

Mission control at ESA's European Space Operations Centre has completed the critical Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) for ESA's Biomass, after nine days of intense work.Making a satellite ready ...

2025-05-09, 11:20 ESA

Part of the Italian island of Sardinia is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to ...

2025-05-08, 08:40 ESA

Thanks largely to Copernicus Sentinel-1, scientists have discovered that a glacier in Antarctica is rapidly siphoning ice from neighbouring flows ? at a pace never before seen. Until now, researchers ...