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Hubble Studies the Tarantula Nebula’s Outskirts
NASA · 24 Jan 2025
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy situated about 160,...
The sounds of BepiColombo's sixth flight past Mercury
ESA · 24 Jan 2025
Listen to the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft as it flew past Mercury on 8 January 2025. This sixth and final flyby used the little planet's gravity to steer the spacecraft on course for entering orbit around Mercury in...
European Launch Startups Send Open Letter to ESA Outlining Key Priorities
European Spaceflight · 24 Jan 2025
Six European launch startups have penned and released an open letter to ESA outlining key priorities they urge the agency to consider when implementing the European Launch Challenge. Below is the full, unedited text of t...
Estonia to host Europe's new space cybersecurity testing ground
ESA · 23 Jan 2025
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Estonian Space Office have set out to develop Europe's newest space cyber range that aims to make space technology more secure and accessible for companies across Europe. Last year...
Swarm detects tidal signatures of our oceans
ESA · 22 Jan 2025
A study using data from ESA’s Swarm mission suggests that faint magnetic signatures created by Earth’s tides can help us determine magma distribution under the seabed and could even give us insights into long-term trends...
Downlinking satellite data from space to the cloud
ESA · 22 Jan 2025
In October 2024, NASA and ESA carried out a series of system trials to test the transmission of data from ESA ground stations to Amazon Web Service servers.
Avio Ships Space Rider Service Module Structure for Testing
European Spaceflight · 22 Jan 2025
Italian rocket builder Avio has delivered the main structure of the first Space Rider service module to ESA’s ESTEC facility in the Netherlands for testing ahead of its inaugural flight. Space Rider is an uncrewed, reusa...
Station Science Top News: Jan. 17, 2025
NASA · 21 Jan 2025
Insights into metal alloy solidification Researchers report details of phase and structure in the solidification of metal alloys on the International Space Station, including formation of microstructures. Because these m...
ESA Selects Consortia to Define Payload Platforms for Mars Tug
European Spaceflight · 21 Jan 2025
As part of its LightShip initiative, the European Space Agency has chosen four consortia to conduct parallel studies to define small, low-cost Mars satellite platforms. The ESA Mars LightShip tug is a proposed interplane...
Towards low-cost missions to Mars
ESA · 21 Jan 2025
Two decades after Mars Express, ESA is returning to small-scale missions aimed at exploring the Red Planet. With a completely different landscape of technologies available this time around, new opportunities for interpla...
Satnav summer school open for registrations
ESA · 20 Jan 2025
Are you a young researcher in the field of satellite navigation? Learn from top-notch experts and expand your network at this year’s ESA-JRC International Summer School on Global Navigation Satellite Systems, taking plac...
Hubble Captures Young Stars Changing Their Environments
NASA · 16 Jan 2025
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, the Orion Nebula (Messier 42, M42). Just 1,500 light-years away, the Orion Nebula is visible t...
Hubble traces hidden history of the Andromeda Galaxy
ESA · 16 Jan 2025
The largest photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, assembled from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations, unveils hundreds of millions of stars. It took more than 10 years to collect data for this colorful portrait o...
Exoplanets Need to Be Prepared for Extreme Space Weather, Chandra Finds
NASA · 16 Jan 2025
Planets around other stars need to be prepared for extreme weather conditions, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) XMM-Newton that examined the effects of X-...
EarthCARE goes live with data now available to all
ESA · 16 Jan 2025
With ESA’s EarthCARE satellite and four measuring instruments all working extremely well and fully commissioned, the mission’s ‘first level’ data stream is now freely available.
Snooping science on the Moon
ESA · 15 Jan 2025
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed its first exploration data buy agreement with Hungarian company Puli Space Technologies, whose neutron spectrometer will study water ice in the Moon's south pole region and prov...
InCubed launches highlight ESA’s support for innovation
ESA · 15 Jan 2025
Three InCubed satellites have launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, highlighting ESA’s role as partner to industry and its support for business and technology innovation.
The best Milky Way animation, by Gaia
ESA · 15 Jan 2025
This is a new artist’s animation of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESA’s Gaia space telescope.
ESA’s Highlights in 2025
ESA · 15 Jan 2025
This year will mark the European Space Agency’s 50th anniversary and promises to be a landmark year for the European aerospace industry. In addition to milestone events in our programmes, September will also mark 30 year...
BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby: the movie
ESA · 14 Jan 2025
Fly over Mercury with BepiColombo for the final time during the mission’s epic expedition around the Sun. The ESA/JAXA spacecraft captured these images of the Solar System's smallest planet on 7 and 8 January 2025, befor...
ArianeGroup Completes Key Prometheus Hot Fire Test
European Spaceflight · 14 Jan 2025
ArianeGroup completed a successful hot fire test of the Prometheus rocket engine in late December 2024. The engine is being developed under a European Space Agency (ESA) contract and is designed to power reusable rockets...
XMM-Newton catches giant black hole’s X-ray oscillations
ESA · 13 Jan 2025
The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton has detected rapidly fluctuating X-rays coming from the very edge of a supermassive black hole in the heart of a nearby galaxy. The results paint a fascinating picture that defies h...
ESA welcomes Slovenia as 23rd Member State
ESA · 13 Jan 2025
Slovenia has celebrated its status ESA's 23rd Member State with a day of space activities including a primetime television broadcast from the Herman Potočnik Noordung Space Technology Center in Vitanje.
ESA Set to Sign Major Argonaut Lunar Lander Contract in Q1
European Spaceflight · 11 Jan 2025
The European Space Agency expects to award a contract to build the main element of its Argonaut lunar lander in the first quarter of 2025. Funding for the Argonaut lunar lander project was approved by ESA Member States i...
ESA budget dips slightly in 2025
SpaceNews · 10 Jan 2025
ESA is starting 2025 with a budget slightly less than in 2024 as it finalizes a package of programs that will likely require major budget increases.