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Rosemary Coogan tries Artemis Moon camera

Rosemary Coogan with Moon camera

GOMX-5 integration is step towards safer seas and cleaner orbits

The GOMX-5 CubeSat has successfully completed qualification testing and final review.

Dates set for Space Station change of command as Franco-German relations awarded Media prize

The dates have been set for ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s upcoming command of the International Space Station, as ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer…

Nepal glacier collapse and flood – before and after

Nepal glacier collapse and flood – before and after

Rosetta’s comet contains ingredients for life

Ingredients regarded as crucial for the origin of life on Earth have been discovered at the comet that ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has been probing…

ESA’s photosynthesis satellite fuelled

Europe’s newest eye on the health of Earth’s vegetation has taken another crucial step towards orbit – the European Space Agency’s FLEX satellit…

Galileo services

The Galileo System will be an independent, global, European-controlled, satellite-based navigation system and will provide a number of guarantee…

Hubble & Gaia solve our galaxy

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew to its current size in part by consuming smaller galaxies. Now, new data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Tel…

Space Medicine

Astronauts face many health challenges when living and working in space, including the impacts of microgravity, radiation and isolation.

Celebrating 50 years of ESA at Open Days 2025

In 2025, the European Space Agency will host a series of Open Days across its major establishments in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Neth…

Slovenia to become ESA’s 23rd Member State

Slovenia signed the Accession Agreement to the ESA Convention on 18 June 2024. Upon ratification, Slovenia will become the 23rd ESA Member State.

ESA and NASA team up to study solar wind

In the run up to April’s total solar eclipse, ESA-led Solar Orbiter and NASA-led Parker Solar Probe are both at their closest approach to the Su…

ESA marks Women and Girls in Science Day 2024

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SEOSAT-Ingenio ready for shipment to Kourou

The Spanish high-resolution land imaging mission, known as SEOSAT-Ingenio, is currently at the premises of Airbus in Madrid, Spain and is ready…

Solar-powered hand sanitiser wins ESA-backed hackathon

A start-up company that has repurposed upcycled solar cells to generate ultraviolet light to disinfect people’s hands has won €20 000 in a hacka…

Student Experiments in the Stratosphere

This week over 70 more young space scientists and engineers got their proverbial space wings, launching their experiments to the edge of space o…

Call for media: ESA ESTEC Open Day - ESA to the Moon

Media registrations are now open for ESA’s Open Day in the Netherlands on Sunday 6 October – the general public and media will have the opportun…

Europe and US teaming up for asteroid deflection

Asteroid researchers and spacecraft engineers from the US, Europe and around the world will gather in Rome next week to discuss the latest progr…