Happy Earth Day, 22 April – a global call to act and protect our planet. At the European Space Agency, that action begins in orbit, where satellites deliver a continuous, global view of Earth and track environmental change. Working...

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope looked at a scene it first captured in 1997 in honour of 36th anniversary: a small portion of a star-forming region about 5000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, known as the Trifid Nebula....

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Week in images: 13-17 April 2026 Discover our week through the lens

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Image: This image from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the coast of Gabon in striking colours.

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Three Earth observation satellites, developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) with European partners, and due to launch later this year, have completed their functional and environmental tests and are ready to travel to the European spaceport in French...

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Shrinking ice is arguably one of the most visible indicators of climate change – particularly in the Arctic. However, a European Space Agency-funded study used information from satellites to show that Antarctica is now experiencing similar dramatic changes, with...

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Noticeable change on Mars often takes millions of years – but the European Space Agency’s Mars Express has captured a blanket of dark ash creeping across the planet in just decades.

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Actionable data from space could be delivered in seconds in the future, thanks to progress towards the European Space Agency’s (ESA) faster and more secure laser communications network, HydRON. At the 41st Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Canadian satellite communications company Kepler was awarded a contract...

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Video: 00:03:39 Artemis II completed a 10-day journey around the Moon, carrying humanity farther into space than it has gone in over 50 years.ESA played a critical role in the mission’s success. The European Service Module powered and sustained...

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Today, at 17:07  local time  on 10 April  (01:07  BST/02:07 CEST  11 April), NASA’s Orion spacecraft and its crew splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean, marking the end of the Artemis II mission. ESA’s European Service Module powered this historic mission...

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Week in images: 06-10 April 2026 Discover our week through the lens

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