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Unleashing a solar flare

Science & Exploration

Magnetic avalanches power solar flares, finds Solar Orbiter

21/01/2026 9327 views 60 likes

Mars Express sees sandblasted wind sculptures near Eumenides Dorsum

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Sandblasting on Mars

07/01/2026 4472 views 67 likes

Location of Cloud-9

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Cloud-9: a new celestial object found by Hubble

05/01/2026 23633 views 92 likes

Fomalhaut cs1 and cs2 (clean image)

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Hubble sees asteroids colliding around nearby star

18/12/2025 4082 views 26 likes

Voyage 2050 themes

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Funding boost unlocks future space science programme

10/12/2025 4484 views 22 likes

GRB 250314A Pull-out (NIRCam image)

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Webb identifies earliest supernova to date

09/12/2025 10491 views 29 likes

Artist’s impression of black hole in NGC 3783

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Flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds

09/12/2025 24392 views 153 likes

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

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A martian butterfly flaps its wings

03/12/2025 10369 views 83 likes

30 years of SOHO imaging the Sun (unannotated)

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Sun-watcher SOHO celebrates thirty years

02/12/2025 7674 views 73 likes

Lessons from the November 2025 solar storm

21/11/2025 15111 views 75 likes

BepiColombo approaches Mercury

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Marking one year until BepiColombo reaches Mercury

21/11/2025 11152 views 54 likes

ESA and CAS teams working on the Smile mission

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Smile approved for launch in spring 2026

20/11/2025 6418 views 44 likes

Webb: CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 in MACS J1149.5+2223

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Webb spots greedy supermassive black hole in early Universe

19/11/2025 15480 views 87 likes

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter observes comet 3I/ATLAS – GIF

ESA pinpoints 3I/ATLAS’s path with data from Mars

14/11/2025 153838 views 217 likes

Artist's impression of an explosion on another star

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First confirmed sighting of explosive burst on nearby star

12/11/2025 11878 views 70 likes

The patterns of Coloe Fossae: What a martian ice age left behind

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What a martian ice age left behind

12/11/2025 5262 views 77 likes

Plato’s spacecraft is complete

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Completed Plato spacecraft is ready for final tests

09/10/2025 7931 views 51 likes

Mars Express sees a dust devil dancing across Mars

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Dancing dust devils trace raging winds on Mars

08/10/2025 11195 views 62 likes

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter observes comet 3I/ATLAS – GIF

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ESA’s ExoMars and Mars Express observe Comet 3I/ATLAS

07/10/2025 628152 views 831 likes

Enceladus jets and shadows

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Cassini proves complex chemistry in Enceladus ocean

01/10/2025 31583 views 96 likes

Edge-on view of our galaxy's great wave

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Gaia discovers our galaxy’s great wave

30/09/2025 21931 views 167 likes

Illustration of moon-forming disc

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Webb studies moon-forming disc around massive planet

29/09/2025 3306 views 48 likes

Sagittarius B2 (NIRCam image)

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Webb explores largest star-forming cloud in our galaxy

24/09/2025 6989 views 57 likes

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XRISM uncovers a mystery in the cosmic winds of change

17/09/2025 4005 views 49 likes

Gaia sees stellar nurseries (animation still)

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Fly through Gaia’s 3D map of stellar nurseries

16/09/2025 42469 views 104 likes

Plato sailing to the Netherlands by boat

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Plato arrived at ESA’s test centre by boat

11/09/2025 5120 views 49 likes

Graphic indicating how Solar Orbiter let us see the connection between energetic electrons in space and their sources on the Sun

Science & Exploration

Double trouble: Solar Orbiter traces superfast electrons ba…

01/09/2025 11090 views 70 likes

Webb's view of planet-forming disc IRAS 04302+2247

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Dusty wisps round a dusty disc

29/08/2025 4703 views 68 likes

Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302 (Webb & ALMA image)

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Webb investigates complex heart of a cosmic butterfly

27/08/2025 12240 views 82 likes

Stellar families in Gaia’s sky

Science & Exploration

Gaia proves our skies are filled with chains of starry gath…

26/08/2025 9903 views 53 likes

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No Earth-like atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1 d

13/08/2025 7198 views 44 likes

Science & Exploration

Webb finds new hints for planet around closest solar twin

07/08/2025 6190 views 52 likes

Mars Express views Acheron Fossae’s western fringes

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When martian ground falls apart

06/08/2025 4515 views 69 likes

NGC 6072 (NIRCam image)

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Webb traces details of complex planetary nebula

30/07/2025 3395 views 15 likes

First radargram from Juice’s RIME instrument

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New Apollo Earthrise view shows Juice’s RIME working well

18/07/2025 6080 views 76 likes

Smile sees the light

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Smile passes gruelling set of tests

15/07/2025 4041 views 40 likes

Cat’s Paw Nebula (NIRCam)

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Webb scratches under Cat’s Paw Nebula for third anniversary

10/07/2025 7035 views 66 likes

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b triggers flares from its host star (artist’s impression)

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Clingy planets can trigger own doom, suspect Cheops and TESS

02/07/2025 5214 views 56 likes

Arcadia Planitia as seen by ESA’s Mars Express

Science & Exploration

Earth tones on Mars

26/06/2025 5229 views 47 likes

High-contrast coronograph image of TWA 7b

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Webb finds evidence of a lightweight planet around TWA 7

25/06/2025 38649 views 101 likes

Astronomers discover vast filament of ‘missing’ matter

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“The models were right”: astronomers find ‘missing’ matter

19/06/2025 24270 views 80 likes

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Construction of ESA’s ambitious LISA mission begins

17/06/2025 11771 views 48 likes

Solar Orbiter's view of the Sun's south pole

Science & Exploration

Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s poles

11/06/2025 86254 views 141 likes

Milky Way and Andromeda encounters

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Hubble and Gaia revisit fate of our galaxy

02/06/2025 8292 views 63 likes

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Recipe for a ‘rocky road’ crater soaked in martian history

21/05/2025 3594 views 53 likes

Titan (Webb image - 11 July 2023)

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Titan forecast: partly cloudy with a chance of methane show…

14/05/2025 3675 views 58 likes

Close-up observations of auroras on Jupiter (December 2023)

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Webb reveals new details and mysteries in Jupiter’s aurora

12/05/2025 5688 views 52 likes

Plato’s 24 newly installed cameras

Science & Exploration

Plato grows its many eyes

08/05/2025 5539 views 61 likes

Gaia spots odd star family

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Gaia spots odd family of stars desperate to leave home

29/04/2025 9122 views 79 likes

Hubble celebrates 35 years

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Hubble celebrates 35th year in orbit

23/04/2025 6884 views 58 likes

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