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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 626403 views 831 likes

Enceladus jets and shadows

Science & Exploration

Cassini proves complex chemistry in Enceladus ocean

01/10/2025 29638 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 20487 views 164 likes

Illustration of moon-forming disc

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Webb studies moon-forming disc around massive planet

29/09/2025 3014 views 48 likes

Sagittarius B2 (NIRCam image)

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Webb explores largest star-forming cloud in our galaxy

24/09/2025 6603 views 57 likes

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XRISM uncovers a mystery in the cosmic winds of change

17/09/2025 3698 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 38275 views 100 likes

Plato sailing to the Netherlands by boat

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Plato arrived at ESA’s test centre by boat

11/09/2025 4698 views 48 likes

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

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Double trouble: Solar Orbiter traces superfast electrons ba…

01/09/2025 10594 views 69 likes

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

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Dusty wisps round a dusty disc

29/08/2025 4372 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 11530 views 82 likes

Stellar families in Gaia’s sky

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

26/08/2025 9238 views 53 likes

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No Earth-like atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1 d

13/08/2025 5983 views 44 likes

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Webb finds new hints for planet around closest solar twin

07/08/2025 5797 views 52 likes

Mars Express views Acheron Fossae’s western fringes

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When martian ground falls apart

06/08/2025 4215 views 69 likes

NGC 6072 (NIRCam image)

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Webb traces details of complex planetary nebula

30/07/2025 3105 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 5711 views 74 likes

Smile sees the light

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Smile passes gruelling set of tests

15/07/2025 3547 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 6684 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 4875 views 56 likes

Arcadia Planitia as seen by ESA’s Mars Express

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Earth tones on Mars

26/06/2025 4816 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 37999 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 23737 views 80 likes

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Construction of ESA’s ambitious LISA mission begins

17/06/2025 10758 views 48 likes

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

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

11/06/2025 83787 views 139 likes

Milky Way and Andromeda encounters

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Hubble and Gaia revisit fate of our galaxy

02/06/2025 7088 views 62 likes

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

21/05/2025 3326 views 52 likes

Titan (Webb image - 11 July 2023)

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

14/05/2025 3365 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 5326 views 52 likes

Plato’s 24 newly installed cameras

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Plato grows its many eyes

08/05/2025 5217 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 8784 views 79 likes

Hubble celebrates 35 years

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Hubble celebrates 35th year in orbit

23/04/2025 6480 views 58 likes

No tricks, just treats (M83 MIRI image)

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Webb spots clues of black hole at heart of nearby galaxy M83

17/04/2025 6375 views 24 likes

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Hubble investigates a magnetar’s birthplace

15/04/2025 2409 views 17 likes

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From boring to bursting: a giant black hole awakens

11/04/2025 13051 views 73 likes

Acheron Fossae as seen by ESA’s Mars Express

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Martian rock on the move

09/04/2025 5430 views 75 likes

Gaia observes the Milky Way

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Farewell, Gaia! Spacecraft operations come to an end

27/03/2025 46144 views 142 likes

JADES-GS-z13-1 in the GOODS-S field (NIRCam image)

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Webb sees galaxy mysteriously clearing fog of early Universe

26/03/2025 4256 views 50 likes

The Cosmic Tornado / Herbig-Haro 49/50 (Webb telescope image)

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Webb unmasks true nature of the Cosmic Tornado

24/03/2025 8344 views 60 likes

Euclid Deep Field South, 16x zoom

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Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fi…

19/03/2025 91126 views 204 likes

Science & Exploration

Follow the reveal of Euclid’s first catalogue on 19 March

14/03/2025 9659 views 52 likes

Solar flare seen by Solar Orbiter

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Catch solar bursts in new citizen science project

11/03/2025 11035 views 98 likes

Perfect placement for Smile’s payload module

Science & Exploration

When two become one: engineers get Smile ready for launch

06/03/2025 3181 views 48 likes

Integral: gamma-ray observatory

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Mission accomplished for Integral, ESA’s gamma-ray telescop…

28/02/2025 7599 views 74 likes

Why is Mars red?

Science & Exploration

Have we been wrong about why Mars is red?

25/02/2025 22926 views 125 likes

Illustration of the Einstein Probe spacecraft.

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Einstein Probe catches X-ray odd couple

18/02/2025 4499 views 51 likes

Artist impression of brown dwarf Gaia-5b

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Wobbling stars reveal hidden companions in Gaia data

04/02/2025 11246 views 59 likes

HH 30 (MIRI & NIRCam image)

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Webb investigates a dusty and dynamic disc

04/02/2025 12512 views 66 likes

Artist's impression of Plato

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Planet hunter Plato to fly on Ariane 6

29/01/2025 4670 views 38 likes

Artist impression of ESA's Envision mission at Venus

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Signed and sealed: Envision can move towards construction

28/01/2025 2944 views 8 likes

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