Crew 10 Dragon vehicle arriving!

Today, I presented to @ESA Member States the first data from ESA's Euclid mission. This dataset includes 26 million galaxies, including a catalogue of more than 380 000 galaxies of which Euclid measured the shapes and the first catalogue of 500 galaxy-galaxy strong lenses,

What’s going on with Jared Isaacman’s nomination to lead NASA? arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/…

Having a sip O’joe in the morning; nothing beats the zero-g cup for morning coffee.

The moment has come to say goodbye to ESA Gaia 🥹

As the #HeraMission flew past planet Mars, we kept a close watch on Oxia Planum, the landing site for the ESA_ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission. Can you spot the area where Europe plans to land a rover to search for signs of life on Mars in 2030?

Space is becoming, more than ever, an extension of our lives here on Earth. Security, communications, economics, politics, and conflicts are being elevated above the confines of our home planet — and its changing the way we see space, international relations, competition and

Hello, Antarctica. Unlike previously anticipated, from 460 km above, it is only pure white, no human activity is visible.

🗓️🚀 Launch update: The #Ignis mission with European Space Agency project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski is set to launch to the International International Space Station no earlier than May 2025 🧑‍🚀✨ Stay tuned 👉esa.int/Science_Explor… Ministerstwo Rozwoju i Technologii Polska Agencja Kosmiczna Axiom Space

OK, this is kind of out there and caters to your inner Uber-Geek. Nadir view of Transient Luminous Events (TLE ) or upper atmospheric lightning. This clip real time is about 6 seconds over the Amazon basin and shows a number of TLE displays from Sprites to blue jets from a

SPACENEWS: In today’s The Irish Times I went to the European Space Agency’s Astronaut Centre last February to check out their new lunar analogue facility, called LUNA.Irish scientist Aidan Cowley spent 10 years making this happen. #space #spaceinsociety irishtimes.com/science/space/…

Timelapse from Antarctica to the Arctic.

Flight Day 3

🌊 Ready to make a splash! European Space Agency's Luca Parmitano joined teams off the coast of California to practice safely recovering the Artemis II crew after their splashdown on Earth 🚀🌕

🚀 Meet Dr. Amelie Schoenenwald, biotechnologist, PhD and member of @ESA's Astronaut Reserve 👩‍🚀 On our latest #ESAExplores podcast, Amelie takes us behind the scenes of her training at the European Astronaut Centre. Want to know her favourite space experiments and the European mission

⏯️ Catch the latest #ESAExplores podcast with Aleš Svoboda 🎧 Let’s chat supersonic jets ✈️, the "real" space stuff 🚀 and the importance of STEM outreach 👩‍🚀👨‍🚀 with our Czech European Space Agency Astronaut Reserve member! 🇨🇿 🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…

A Pink Moon in full bloom 🌸 The Moon will appear full this weekend, with its peak on Saturday evening. April's "Pink Moon" is named after the herb moss pink, one of the earliest widespread flowers of spring.

Falcon 9 transits the 100% full Moon during tonight’s 8:53:30pm ET launch of 21 Starlink satellites from Florida 🚀🌕

🚨 New time zone: space! 🚀 European Space Agency's Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space is now installed on the International Space Station's Columbus module ⏰. ✅ Today: first power-up and linking with ground control⚡🎙️ Next: a six-month commissioning phase, then groundbreaking science 💡esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…

Breaking space news: We have made our own solar eclipse in space! 🌘 Today, we release the first images from our Proba-3 mission, which flies two spacecraft in precise formation to create artificial solar eclipses in orbit. Using a powerful instrument called a coronagraph,