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Coronal Mass Ejection erupts from the Sun on 18 January 2026

ESA monitoring January 2026 space weather event

20/01/2026 18814 views 64 likes

An airplane in front of the Sun

When the Sun disrupts aviation

15/12/2025 2054 views 10 likes

Lessons from the November 2025 solar storm

21/11/2025 12692 views 71 likes

ESA monitoring November 2025 space weather event

12/11/2025 33886 views 70 likes

Solar flare seen by Solar Orbiter

Flying through the biggest solar storm ever recorded

15/10/2025 28864 views 100 likes

Solar corona viewed by Proba-3’s ASPIICS

Enabling & Support

Proba-3’s first artificial solar eclipse

16/06/2025 37200 views 144 likes

Where space weather starts

Supercomputing powers for space weather models

25/03/2025 1184 views 12 likes

ESA has signed a contract with Hemeria worth €9.8 million to design, build and operate Swing, the Agency’s first space weather nanosatellite mission. Swing will aim at demonstrating the value of nanosatellites to gather space weather data and support the commercialisation trend in the New Space era.

Hemeria to implement ESA’s first space weather nanosatellit…

20/11/2024 1913 views 7 likes

Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way

Enabling & Support

Double trouble: Gaia hit by micrometeoroid and solar storm

17/07/2024 24888 views 182 likes

Vigil warns Earth

Airbus to build ESA’s Vigil space weather forecasting missi…

22/05/2024 6198 views 13 likes

Aurora near Frankfurt, Germany, May 2024

The May 2024 solar storm: your questions answered

17/05/2024 25469 views 63 likes

Solar flare captured by ESA’s Proba-2 SWAP

SMOS and Swarm team up to spot huge solar storm

26/03/2024 22966 views 24 likes

Largest flare of the current solar cycle as of 22 February 2024

Sun fires off largest flare of current solar cycle

23/02/2024 28498 views 105 likes

Euclid artist impression

Science & Exploration

Guide stars found as Euclid's navigation fine tuned

05/10/2023 18990 views 109 likes

Artist impression of Euclid scanning the sky

Science & Exploration

Seeking Euclid's hidden stars: commissioning looks up

26/09/2023 12834 views 144 likes

Tiny jets escape the Sun

Science & Exploration

Solar Orbiter discovers tiny jets that could power the sola…

24/08/2023 13263 views 83 likes

Rosetta at Comet (landscape)

Enabling & Support

Solar System fingerprints found in memories of ESA flotilla

10/08/2023 5813 views 81 likes

Science & Exploration

Giant solar eruption felt on Earth, Moon and Mars

02/08/2023 53662 views 253 likes

Solar flare caught by SOHO

Enabling & Support

Forecasting Solar Storms with the Solar Energetic Particle …

13/02/2023 4898 views 7 likes

Curious comet’s rare close approach

01/02/2023 35736 views 243 likes

RadCube reaches out

Enabling & Support

Smartphone chips flown in orbit for space weather monitoring

23/09/2022 1928 views 34 likes

SOHO captures coronal mass ejection blasting from the Sun's far side in the direction of Venus

Enabling & Support

Coronal mass ejection hits Solar Orbiter before Venus flyby

05/09/2022 108014 views 208 likes

Aurorae

Protecting Artemis and lunar explorers from space radiation

26/08/2022 10095 views 93 likes

Artist's view of Swarm

Swarm dodges collision during climb to escape Sun’s wrath

14/07/2022 27073 views 181 likes

Trisat-R

Enabling & Support

AI CubeSat headed to Van Allen Belts on Vega-C

13/07/2022 3843 views 53 likes

Auroral beads

Science & Exploration

Magnetic vortices explain mysterious auroral beads

02/06/2022 3792 views 66 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

New home for Earth’s protectors

12/04/2022 10265 views 67 likes

Science & Exploration

Solar Orbiter crosses the Earth-Sun line as it heads for th…

07/03/2022 19045 views 103 likes

Science & Exploration

Giant solar eruption seen by Solar Orbiter

18/02/2022 71540 views 190 likes

Vigil warns Earth

Introducing ESA Vigil: Earth’s devoted solar defender

10/02/2022 9746 views 47 likes

Earth's protective shield

Swarm and Cluster get to the bottom of geomagnetic storms

15/12/2021 7312 views 116 likes

Integral

Enabling & Support

Three hours to save Integral

18/10/2021 61482 views 150 likes

Space weather

Enabling & Support

Wanted: your ideas for missions to monitor space weather

01/09/2021 4205 views 21 likes

Space Safety

Hang out with Europe’s top space experts

23/06/2021 8703 views 56 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

ESA’s digital celebration of space safety and Asteroid Day

14/06/2021 5837 views 46 likes

Spacecraft monitoring the Sun

Podcast: Name our space weather mission

19/05/2021 2787 views 45 likes

The 'No Name Mission

Name ESA’s new mission! (CLOSED)

17/05/2021 43617 views 162 likes

When the atmosphere isn't enough

19/04/2021 5156 views 64 likes

Click on image to see the huge flare produced on 4 November 2003

ESA's Portal to the Sun gets an upgrade

17/12/2020 2926 views 9 likes

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