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Why is Mars red?

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Have we been wrong about why Mars is red?

25/02/2025 22025 views 125 likes

Illustration of the Einstein Probe spacecraft.

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Einstein Probe catches X-ray odd couple

18/02/2025 4379 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 10912 views 59 likes

HH 30 (MIRI & NIRCam image)

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Webb investigates a dusty and dynamic disc

04/02/2025 12242 views 65 likes

Artist's impression of Plato

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Planet hunter Plato to fly on Ariane 6

29/01/2025 4495 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 2754 views 7 likes

Einstein Probe detects ancient X-ray burst (artist impression)

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Einstein Probe detects puzzling cosmic explosion

23/01/2025 8024 views 62 likes

Hubble’s panoramic view of the Andromeda Galaxy

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Hubble traces hidden history of the Andromeda Galaxy

16/01/2025 31918 views 87 likes

The best Milky Way map, by Gaia (artist impression)

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Last starlight for ground-breaking Gaia

15/01/2025 26232 views 76 likes

Giant black hole gobbling up doomed white dwarf star

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XMM-Newton catches giant black hole’s X-ray oscillations

13/01/2025 7814 views 64 likes

Best images from BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby

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Top three images from BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby

09/01/2025 78860 views 297 likes

BepiColombo's sixth flyby route through Mercury's magnetic environment

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BepiColombo to swing by Mercury for the sixth time

06/01/2025 11753 views 69 likes

NGC 346 (Webb)

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Planet-forming discs lived longer in early Universe

16/12/2024 4649 views 33 likes

Galaxy cluster MACS J1423 (NIRCam image)

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Webb finds primeval star-forming galaxy that is lightweight

11/12/2024 4390 views 51 likes

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XMM-Newton celebrates 25 years of breakthroughs

10/12/2024 4460 views 68 likes

First mid-infrared light observations of Mercury

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BepiColombo reveals Mercury in a new light

09/12/2024 11421 views 107 likes

Spiderweb Protocluster (NIRCam)

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Webb finds surprises in Spiderweb protocluster field

04/12/2024 6744 views 56 likes

Proba-3 satellites form artificial eclipse

Science & Exploration

Five space mysteries Proba-3 will help solve

03/12/2024 22459 views 199 likes

Sombrero galaxy (MIRI)

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Sombrero Galaxy dazzles in new Webb image

25/11/2024 14765 views 103 likes

The Sun's surface as seen by Solar Orbiter's PHI instrument

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New full Sun views show sunspots, fields and restless plasm…

20/11/2024 110922 views 130 likes

Descending to a comet

Science & Exploration

Philae’s extraordinary comet landing relived

12/11/2024 7790 views 54 likes

Mars Express images combined to produce global Mars in colour

Science & Exploration

Happy New Year on Mars

12/11/2024 24777 views 335 likes

Webb and Hubble images overlapping

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Webb and Hubble examine spooky galaxy pair

31/10/2024 5069 views 61 likes

NGC 602 (NIRCam and MIRI image)

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First young brown dwarfs found outside the Milky Way?

23/10/2024 10993 views 99 likes

Hubble's view on symbiotic binary star R Aquarii

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Hubble captures intricacies of R Aquarii

16/10/2024 4418 views 14 likes

Mosaic of Euclid observations in the Southern Sky

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Zoom into the first page of ESA Euclid’s great cosmic atlas

15/10/2024 354819 views 447 likes

Europa Clipper artist’s concept

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Juice and Europa Clipper: Dream team to Jupiter

14/10/2024 12612 views 77 likes

Cryptic terrain in Australe Scopuli on Mars

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Cryptic Mars, a land shaped by ice

09/10/2024 6379 views 82 likes

Mercury’s magnetosphere during BepiColombo’s third flyby (unannotated)

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Mercury’s magnetic landscape mapped in 30 minutes

03/10/2024 5486 views 63 likes

Hubble's view of M87 galaxy

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Hubble sees black hole beam boosting stellar eruptions

26/09/2024 4459 views 19 likes

Galaxy GS-NDG-9422

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Webb finds potential missing link to first stars

25/09/2024 4175 views 68 likes

Artist impression of the supermassive black hole in NGC 4151

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XRISM unveils black hole and supernova remnant surroundings

20/09/2024 5591 views 53 likes

Supermassive black holes in Hubble Ultra Deep Field

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Hubble finds more black holes in the early Universe

17/09/2024 4219 views 45 likes

Rosetta at Comet (landscape)

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Rosetta's legacy: how were you inspired?

10/09/2024 4156 views 32 likes

Juice’s view of the Pacific Ocean in three wavelengths

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Juice confirms that Earth is habitable

10/09/2024 42309 views 105 likes

Cluster satellite reenters Earth's atmosphere

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Goodnight, Cluster: brilliant end to trailblazing mission

09/09/2024 11811 views 53 likes

BepiColombo’s fourth Mercury flyby

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BepiColombo's best images yet highlight fourth Mercury flyby

05/09/2024 43351 views 146 likes

ESA is part of the Big Science Business Forum 2024 event on 1–4 October in Trieste, Italy

Opportunities with ESA at Big Science Business Forum 2024

03/09/2024 1117 views 14 likes

BepiColombo Mercury flyby

Science & Exploration

Fourth Mercury flyby begins BepiColombo’s new trajectory

02/09/2024 15932 views 66 likes

Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe

Science & Exploration

Solar Orbiter shows how solar wind gets a magnetic push

29/08/2024 6516 views 67 likes

Juice JANUS view of the Moon

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First views from Juice’s science camera

23/08/2024 19668 views 110 likes

Juice NavCam view of the Moon

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Juice’s navigation camera gets first taste of space

22/08/2024 4015 views 59 likes

Cluster satellite reentering Earth's atmosphere

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Cluster mission set to end with reentry over South Pacific

22/08/2024 6653 views 45 likes

Juice waves Earth goodbye once again

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Juice rerouted to Venus in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby

21/08/2024 43214 views 111 likes

Science & Exploration

Gaia spots possible moons around hundreds of asteroids

08/08/2024 8875 views 65 likes

Caralis Chaos as seen by ESA’s Mars Express

Science & Exploration

Take a trip to Mars’s largest lake

07/08/2024 6215 views 84 likes

Comet on 3 August 2014

Science & Exploration

Rosetta and beyond: tales of a mission that left a mark

06/08/2024 7729 views 53 likes

Example of Euclid galaxies in Galaxy Zoo

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Euclid Galaxy Zoo – help us classify the shapes of galaxies

01/08/2024 37437 views 806 likes

Exoplanet Epsilon Indi Ab (MIRI image)

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Webb images new, cold exoplanet 12 light-years away

24/07/2024 14099 views 65 likes

Juice flies by Earth

Science & Exploration

Juice’s lunar-Earth flyby: all you need to know

15/07/2024 29178 views 129 likes

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