Ten years ago in a galaxy not far away… well, this one actually. Today marks the 10th anniversary of the European Astro Pi Challenge!

The ESA/ELGRA Gravity-Related Research Summer School offers a comprehensive overview of microgravity and hypergravity research. Hosted by ESA’s Education Office and the European Low Gravity Research Association (ELGRA), the next edition will take place from 15 to 26 June 2026, combining one week of onsite activities with one week of online learning. The Summer School…

Copernicus Sentinel-6B, launched last month, has reached its orbit and delivered its first set of data, which show variations in sea level in the North Atlantic Ocean. This data underlines how the mission will continue to strengthen the long-term reference record of sea levels, a key parameter of climate change.

Satellites are emerging as a powerful new tool in the fight to curb emissions of methane. While methane is much shorter-lived in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, it is vastly more potent at trapping heat, which makes rapid cuts essential for slowing warming in the short term. The same satellite technology that has transformed methane…

Image: Following International Mountain Day, which creates awareness of the importance of mountain environments around the world, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Pariacaca Mountain Range in Peru.

As part of the ESA Academy Experiments Programme, Team V-STARS carried out the first experiment with human participants in the Orbital Robotics Lab, investigating how microgravity affects the perception of verticality.

In the frame of ESA Academy’s Engagement initiative, ESA is offering a limited number of sponsorships to tertiary education students from ESA Member State, Associate Member, or Canada, to attend the 18th edition of the European Space Conference (ESC) in Brussels on 27-28 January 2026.  

ESA Academy invites teams of motivated university students to apply for the CubeSat Concurrent Engineering Workshop 2026. This five-day event will take place from 23 to 27 February 2026 at ESEC-Galaxia, Belgium, and offers a unique opportunity for students who are starting or planning a CubeSat project to gain hands-on experience in concurrent engineering. The…

The European Space Agency’s Swarm mission detected a large but temporary spike of high-energy protons at Earth’s poles during a geomagnetic storm in November. It did this not with the scientific instruments for measuring Earth’s magnetic field, but with its ‘star tracker’ positioning instruments – a first for the Swarm mission.