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Strategy 2040: Europe’s Vision for Exploration Beyond Artemis
Space Scout · 18 Aug 2025
Amidst a changing world, space powers like ESA are forced to contend with new realities - where existing allies are no longer and the game has drastically changed.
New ESA Business Incubator in Spain Opens First Call for Proposals
European Spaceflight · 18 Aug 2025
The European Space Agency’s new Business Incubation Centre in Andalusia, southern Spain, has opened its first call for proposals, offering up to €60,000 to space startups in the region. Launched in 2003, the ESA Business...
Hubble Examines Low Brightness, High Interest Galaxy
NASA · 15 Aug 2025
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image zooms in on the feathery spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 45, which lies just 22 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (the Whale). The portrait uses data drawn from...
No Earth-like atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1 d
ESA · 13 Aug 2025
The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is similar in size to Earth, rocky, and resides in an area around its star where liquid water on i...
Hubble Captures a Tarantula
NASA · 12 Aug 2025
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called the Tarantula Nebula. Most of the nebulae Hubble images are in our galaxy, but this nebula is in...
CREAM: avoiding collisions in space through automation
ESA · 12 Aug 2025
Earth orbit is becoming increasingly crowded. With over 11 000 active satellites and many thousands more expected in the coming years as well as over 1.2 million pieces of space debris greater than 1 cm, the risk of in-o...
ESA to Develop Hummingbird-Inspired Flying Mars Explorer
European Spaceflight · 11 Aug 2025
The European Space Agency has published a call to tender for the development of “flapping wing technology” for a Mars surface explorer. In the 8 August call, the agency states that on Mars, a flapping-wing propulsion sys...
Hubble Captures a Tarantula
NASA · 8 Aug 2025
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called the Tarantula Nebula. Most of the nebulae Hubble images are in our galaxy, but this nebula is in...
Human minds, robotic hands
ESA · 8 Aug 2025
Last July, a team of robots explored a simulated martian landscape in Germany, guided by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. This was the final session of the Surface Avatar experiment, a joint initiativ...
Webb finds new hints for planet around closest solar twin
ESA · 7 Aug 2025
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the stellar system closest to our own Sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the Alpha Ce...
ESA Astronaut Raphaël Liégeois
ESA · 7 Aug 2025
ESA astronaut Raphaël Liégeois from Belgium, a member of the ESA Astronaut Class of 2022, was selected in November 2022 from over 22,500 candidates who applied to ESA’s 2021 call for new astronauts.
First asteroid sightings push Hera’s camera to the limit
ESA · 6 Aug 2025
ESA’s Hera mission has captured images of asteroids (1126) Otero and (18805) Kellyday. Though distant and faint, the early observations serve as both a successful instrument test and a demonstration of agile spacecraft o...
Hubble sizes up rare interstellar comet
ESA · 6 Aug 2025
A team of astronomers has taken the sharpest-ever picture of the unexpected interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, using the crisp vision of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Training robots from space
ESA · 4 Aug 2025
This summer, a team of robots explored a simulated martian landscape in Germany, remotely guided by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. This marked the fourth and final session of the Surface Avatar expe...
How Joint NASA-ESA Sea Level Mission Will Help Hurricane Forecasts
NASA · 1 Aug 2025
Sentinel-6B will measure sea surface height for nearly all of the world’s ocean, providing important data for information products, including weather and hurricane forecasts. NASA has a long record of monitoring Earth’s...
SMOS adds long-term view on carbon stored in forests
ESA · 1 Aug 2025
Data from ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission can be used to estimate how much carbon is stored in forests – and a study has improved our understanding of how reliable this proxy is and how long-term da...
Thales Alenia Space Ships Key Component for Mars Sample Return Mission
European Spaceflight · 30 Jul 2025
Thales Alenia Space has shipped the Orbit Insertion Module for the European Space Agency’s Earth Return Orbiter from its facilities in Turin to Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage, UK. As part of its contribution to th...
Greenland subglacial flood bursts through ice sheet surface
ESA · 30 Jul 2025
Using data from several Earth-observing satellites, including ESA’s CryoSat and the Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 missions, scientists have discovered that a huge flood beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet surged upwar...
Earth views from Cupola during Ignis mission
ESA · 29 Jul 2025
This beautiful view of Earth was captured by ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski during the Ignis mission aboard the International Space Station.
Moon timelapse from the ISS during Ignis mission
ESA · 29 Jul 2025
This stunning time-lapse of the Moon was captured by ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from the International Space Station during the Ignis mission. Sławosz was launched to the ISS aboard the Dragon spac...
Sławosz operating MELFI during Ignis mission
ESA · 29 Jul 2025
ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski operates one of ESA’s space freezers, known as MELFI (Minus Eighty-Degree Laboratory Freezer for ISS), during his stay aboard the International Space Station. The Europea...
Hubble Spies Swirling Spiral
NASA · 28 Jul 2025
The swirling spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 3285B, which resides 137 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra (the Water Snake). Hydra has the largest area of the 88 constel...
Europe’s new carbon-monitoring mission launches on Vega-C
ESA · 28 Jul 2025
The MicroCarb mission, led by the French space agency CNES, will monitor carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to help identify the world’s main sources and sinks of this important greenhouse gas. Launched on 25 July on a Veg...
Hubble Spies Swirling Spiral
NASA · 25 Jul 2025
The swirling spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 3285B, which resides 137 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra (the Water Snake).
Dassault CEO Pushing for VORTEX to be Adopted as an ESA Project
European Spaceflight · 25 Jul 2025
Dassault Aviation Chairman and CEO Eric Trappier has revealed that the company expects its VORTEX spaceplane project to be adopted as a European Space Agency programme as early as next year. During the Paris Air Show in...