Image: These Copernicus Sentinel-2 images show agricultural development in the desert of southern Egypt, close to the border with Sudan.

Image: This image of land surface temperature was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on Wednesday, 23 June.

Video: 00:02:07 Europe is facing an intense heatwave, with record temperatures and several cities under red alert. On 23 June, France recorded its hottest June day ever. This image was captured the same day by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite, which measures land surface temperature from space. Unlike air temperature, land surface temperature shows how hot…

The European Space Agency’s EarthCARE satellite was developed to make a unique set of simultaneous measurements that shed new light on the role that clouds and aerosols play in regulating Earth’s climate. Now, in a remarkable example of a research mission delivering direct practical benefits, global observations from the satellite’s cloud profiling radar are being…

In 2006, ESA launched the first European Space Education Resource Office (ESERO) in the Netherlands. Its mission was clear and ambitious: support teachers to use the excitement of space to inspire students to engage with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Two decades later, ESERO has grown into ESA’s largest and most influential school-level education…

Image: This image of Earth, with the day-night terminator line clearly visible, was captured by the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) mission

From 17–19 June 2026, the winning teams from the 26 national CanSat competitions, led by national ESEROs and other national partners, gathered at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) for the CanSat – Space Engineer for a Day event. Around 170 students and teachers from 26 countries took part in this three-day learning…

Image: ESA’s Earth from Space series reaches its 1000th image with a return to the vibrant waters of southern Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas – the same region featured in the very first edition in 2004.

The first months of 2026 have given ESA Academy’s Training Programme a strong start, bringing together students from ESA Member States, Associate Members and Canada at ESA facilities to explore the technologies, operations, legal frameworks, and innovation shaping the future of space activities.

The SpaceDot team from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, visited ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands on 2–3 June 2026 to calibrate the flight model dosimeter on board AcubeSAT, a student-built CubeSat for space biology developed within ESA’s Fly Your Satellite! programme.