ESA - Space Science - Archive

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Science & Exploration

Webb reveals millions of stars in nearby galaxy

06/07/2026 1768 views 13 likes

Artist’s concept of an ancient quasar

Science & Exploration

Euclid discovers the most ancient quasar in the Universe

06/07/2026 7488 views 75 likes

Exoplanet WD 1856 b (artist’s concept)

Science & Exploration

Webb studies how a planet survived the death of its star

01/07/2026 2604 views 33 likes

Science & Exploration

XMM-Newton helps revise distance to outer spiral arms

01/07/2026 3477 views 50 likes

Euclid’s view of our galaxy’s bulge (16:9 cutout)

Science & Exploration

ESA’s Euclid captures the Milky Way’s crowded heart

24/06/2026 121421 views 194 likes

The BepiColombo mission team eagerly gathers at ESOC's Main Control Room waiting to receive signal confirmation of the successful shutdown of the spacecraft's solar electric propulsion system.

Enabling & Support

End of the blue glow: BepiColombo turns off solar electric …

24/06/2026 5324 views 63 likes

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (NIRSpec IFU)

Science & Exploration

Webb finds clues to ancient origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS

22/06/2026 4549 views 53 likes

Dust devils galore: Mars Express visits Mamers Valles on Mars

Science & Exploration

Dozens of dust devils hidden in plain sight

17/06/2026 3185 views 47 likes

Bulge fossil fragment Terzan 5 (Webb and Hubble image)

Science & Exploration

Webb & Hubble reveal relic of our galaxy’s formation

16/06/2026 2294 views 51 likes

Science & Exploration

ESA science missions get green light for new discoveries

11/06/2026 5476 views 16 likes

Simulated Arrakihs mock image of a galaxy halo

Science & Exploration

ESA adopts galactic archaeology mission Arrakihs

10/06/2026 6217 views 70 likes

Little Red Dot Abell2744-QSO1 (NIRCam Image)

Science & Exploration

Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy

27/05/2026 5751 views 55 likes

Artist's view of the ICI-5 mission flying through the aurora borealis and deploying daughter payloads

ESA’s Prodex programme brings scientific research to space

22/05/2026 2177 views 57 likes

Solar eclipse (artist impression)

Science & Exploration

Join ESA for a total solar eclipse on 12 August 2026

21/05/2026 32179 views 136 likes

Wide view of Vega-C liftoff with Smile

Science & Exploration

Smile lifts off on quest to reveal Earth’s invisible shield…

19/05/2026 10049 views 54 likes

Mars Express visits Shalbatana Vallis on Mars

Science & Exploration

Waterworn chaos on Mars

13/05/2026 4384 views 99 likes

Smile lifts off into space (artist impression)

Science & Exploration

How to follow the Smile launch live

12/05/2026 11110 views 64 likes

A beacon of light in swirls of dust

Science & Exploration

A beacon of light in swirls of dust

07/05/2026 5657 views 27 likes

Star-forming regions in M51

Science & Exploration

Webb & Hubble find massive star clusters emerge faster

06/05/2026 6280 views 68 likes

Smile delivered to space (artist impression, GIF)

Science & Exploration

Smile set to launch on 19 May

23/04/2026 6503 views 49 likes

Close-up of Plato’s cameras

Science & Exploration

Plato aces space-like tests

23/04/2026 5692 views 43 likes

Strong gravitational lenses captured by Euclid

Science & Exploration

Euclid Space Warps: help spot galaxies bending spacetime

21/04/2026 8280 views 112 likes

Trifid Nebula (Wide Field Camera 3 Image)

Science & Exploration

Hubble turns 36 with a dazzling Trifid Nebula portrait

20/04/2026 7731 views 58 likes

Mars Express captures dark ash covering Mars’s Utopia Planitia

Science & Exploration

Ash creeps across Mars

15/04/2026 12770 views 92 likes

Imaged of processed Proba-3 data that highlights movement around the Sun

Science & Exploration

First Proba-3 science: surprisingly speedy solar wind

13/04/2026 4440 views 52 likes

Comet 3I/ATLAS seen by Juice’s science camera

Science & Exploration

Five things Juice has revealed about Comet 3I/ATLAS

02/04/2026 15129 views 144 likes

Saturn (2024 Webb & Hubble images)

Science & Exploration

Webb & Hubble capture new views of Saturn

25/03/2026 9324 views 87 likes

Gamma-Cas and its hungry white dwarf companion

Science & Exploration

XRISM solves famous star’s 50-year mystery

24/03/2026 5226 views 71 likes

Smile delivered to space (artist impression, GIF)

Science & Exploration

T-20 days: Smile to launch on 9 April

20/03/2026 4030 views 40 likes

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS; Nov 2025)

Science & Exploration

Hubble unexpectedly catches comet breaking up

18/03/2026 3968 views 57 likes

Smile arrives at Europe's Spaceport

Science & Exploration

Smile arrives at Europe’s Spaceport

09/03/2026 3376 views 30 likes

Coronal mass ejection on 27 May 2024

Science & Exploration

ESA’s Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the Red Plan…

05/03/2026 11704 views 62 likes

Counting craters in Mars’s ancient highlands

Science & Exploration

Counting craters

04/03/2026 3633 views 52 likes

Hubble & Euclid: zoom into Cat's Eye Nebula

Science & Exploration

Hubble & Euclid zoom into cosmic eye

03/03/2026 10144 views 86 likes

Smile leaving Saint-Nazaire in France

Science & Exploration

Smile sets sail for Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana

20/02/2026 3414 views 37 likes

Uranus (January 2025)

Science & Exploration

Webb maps Uranus's mysterious upper atmosphere

19/02/2026 16522 views 68 likes

Galaxy field of low-surface-brightness galaxy CDG-2

Science & Exploration

Hubble, Euclid & Subaru uncover dark galaxy

18/02/2026 5445 views 29 likes

Artist impression of the planetary system around the star LHS 1903

Science & Exploration

Cheops discovers late bloomer from another era

12/02/2026 5881 views 43 likes

Overhead perspective of Flaugergues Crater

Science & Exploration

Explore Mars’s Flaugergues Crater

04/02/2026 3672 views 82 likes

COSMOS Field MoM-z14 Galaxy (NIRCam pullout)

Science & Exploration

Webb gazes further back in time

28/01/2026 3466 views 28 likes

Astrophysical anomalies from Hubble’s archive

Science & Exploration

1400 quirky objects found in Hubble's archive

27/01/2026 12837 views 61 likes

Globular cluster targets that revealed “forever young” stars

Science & Exploration

Hubble uncovers the secret of stars that defy ageing

21/01/2026 1818 views 16 likes

Unleashing a solar flare

Science & Exploration

Magnetic avalanches power solar flares, finds Solar Orbiter

21/01/2026 9495 views 60 likes

Mars Express sees sandblasted wind sculptures near Eumenides Dorsum

Science & Exploration

Sandblasting on Mars

07/01/2026 4516 views 67 likes

Location of Cloud-9

Science & Exploration

Cloud-9: a new celestial object found by Hubble

05/01/2026 23811 views 92 likes

Fomalhaut cs1 and cs2 (clean image)

Science & Exploration

Hubble sees asteroids colliding around nearby star

18/12/2025 4135 views 26 likes

Voyage 2050 themes

Science & Exploration

Funding boost unlocks future space science programme

10/12/2025 4528 views 22 likes

GRB 250314A Pull-out (NIRCam image)

Science & Exploration

Webb identifies earliest supernova to date

09/12/2025 10560 views 29 likes

Artist’s impression of black hole in NGC 3783

Science & Exploration

Flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds

09/12/2025 24452 views 153 likes

Bird’s-eye view: the butterflies and dark layers of Idaeus Fossae

Science & Exploration

A martian butterfly flaps its wings

03/12/2025 10407 views 83 likes

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