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Reentry of International Space Station Batteries into Earth's Atmosphere

UPDATE (8 March, 20:00 CET): The reentry of the ISS batteries is now expected between approximately 19:30 CET and 21:08 CET on 8 March. This will be the final update ...

ESA’s new Ariane 6 rocket passed a major full-scale rehearsal

For this rehearsal, the boosters were not ignited so Ariane 6 stayed firmly on the launch pad at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, as planned.

Supersonic plasma jets discovered

Capturing the ripples of spacetime: LISA gets go-ahead

Today, ESA’s Science Programme Committee approved the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space.

Double trouble: ESA's Gaia hit by micrometeoroid and solar storm

Launched in December 2013, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft is on a mission to map the locations and motions of more than a billion stars in the Milky Way with extreme precision.But it’s not easy being a satellite: space is a dangerous place. In recent months, hyper-velocity space dust and the strongest solar storm in 20 years…

Pierogi in Space

In a first for space cuisine, ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski will bring pierogi, the traditional Polish dumplings, to the International Space Station during the upcoming Axiom Mission 4.

Gaia sees strange stars in most detailed Milky Way survey to date

Today, ESA’s Gaia mission releases its new treasure trove of data about our home galaxy. Astronomers describe strange ‘starquakes’, stellar DNA, asymmetric motions and other fascinating insights in this most detailed Milky Way survey to date.

Lake Poopó, Bolivia's second largest lake, has vanished

First evidence of planet-wide groundwater system on Mars

ESA Sentinel-1D delivers first high-resolution images

The first high-resolution images have been received from Copernicus Sentinel-1D and were shared publicly for the first time at the European Space Agency’s Ministerial Council, held today in Bremen, Germany. Glaciers in Antarctica, the tip of South America, as well as the city of Bremen, are visible in these stunning…

Dust storms on Titan spotted by Cassini for the first time

Satellites Confirm Sinking of San Francisco's Millennium Tower

Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields

On 19 March 2025, the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission released its first batch of survey data, including a preview of its deep fields. Here, hundreds of thousands of galaxies in different shapes and sizes take centre stage and show a glimpse of their large-scale organisation in the cosmic web.

Mountains and buried ice on Mars

Juice rerouted to Venus in first lunar-Earth flyby

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, using the gravity of Earth to send it Venus-bound, on a shortcut to Jupiter through the inner Solar System.