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Perfect placement for Smile’s payload module

Science & Exploration

When two become one: engineers get Smile ready for launch

06/03/2025 3176 views 48 likes

Integral: gamma-ray observatory

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

28/02/2025 7589 views 74 likes

Why is Mars red?

Science & Exploration

Have we been wrong about why Mars is red?

25/02/2025 22897 views 125 likes

Illustration of the Einstein Probe spacecraft.

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Einstein Probe catches X-ray odd couple

18/02/2025 4489 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 11217 views 59 likes

HH 30 (MIRI & NIRCam image)

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Webb investigates a dusty and dynamic disc

04/02/2025 12496 views 66 likes

Artist's impression of Plato

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Planet hunter Plato to fly on Ariane 6

29/01/2025 4662 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 2938 views 8 likes

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

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Einstein Probe detects puzzling cosmic explosion

23/01/2025 8282 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 32811 views 88 likes

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

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Last starlight for ground-breaking Gaia

15/01/2025 26794 views 77 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 7918 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 80554 views 299 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 12257 views 69 likes

NGC 346 (Webb)

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Planet-forming discs lived longer in early Universe

16/12/2024 4716 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 4476 views 51 likes

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XMM-Newton celebrates 25 years of breakthroughs

10/12/2024 4577 views 68 likes

First mid-infrared light observations of Mercury

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BepiColombo reveals Mercury in a new light

09/12/2024 11775 views 109 likes

Spiderweb Protocluster (NIRCam)

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Webb finds surprises in Spiderweb protocluster field

04/12/2024 6868 views 56 likes

Proba-3 satellites form artificial eclipse

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Five space mysteries Proba-3 will help solve

03/12/2024 22553 views 199 likes

Sombrero galaxy (MIRI)

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Sombrero Galaxy dazzles in new Webb image

25/11/2024 14975 views 105 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 111465 views 131 likes

Descending to a comet

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Philae’s extraordinary comet landing relived

12/11/2024 8522 views 55 likes

Mars Express images combined to produce global Mars in colour

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Happy New Year on Mars

12/11/2024 25305 views 336 likes

Webb and Hubble images overlapping

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Webb and Hubble examine spooky galaxy pair

31/10/2024 5201 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 11144 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 4553 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 356940 views 447 likes

Europa Clipper artist’s concept

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Juice and Europa Clipper: Dream team to Jupiter

14/10/2024 13349 views 81 likes

Cryptic terrain in Australe Scopuli on Mars

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Cryptic Mars, a land shaped by ice

09/10/2024 6477 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 5726 views 63 likes

Hubble's view of M87 galaxy

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Hubble sees black hole beam boosting stellar eruptions

26/09/2024 4513 views 19 likes

Galaxy GS-NDG-9422

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Webb finds potential missing link to first stars

25/09/2024 4237 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 5815 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 4302 views 45 likes

Rosetta at Comet (landscape)

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Rosetta's legacy: how were you inspired?

10/09/2024 4261 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 42651 views 105 likes

Cluster satellite reenters Earth's atmosphere

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Goodnight, Cluster: brilliant end to trailblazing mission

09/09/2024 11966 views 53 likes

BepiColombo’s fourth Mercury flyby

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BepiColombo's best images yet highlight fourth Mercury flyby

05/09/2024 43653 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 1154 views 14 likes

BepiColombo Mercury flyby

Science & Exploration

Fourth Mercury flyby begins BepiColombo’s new trajectory

02/09/2024 16144 views 66 likes

Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe

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Solar Orbiter shows how solar wind gets a magnetic push

29/08/2024 6635 views 67 likes

Juice JANUS view of the Moon

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First views from Juice’s science camera

23/08/2024 19908 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 4108 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 6856 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 43611 views 111 likes

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Gaia spots possible moons around hundreds of asteroids

08/08/2024 9024 views 65 likes

Caralis Chaos as seen by ESA’s Mars Express

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Take a trip to Mars’s largest lake

07/08/2024 6387 views 85 likes

Comet on 3 August 2014

Science & Exploration

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

06/08/2024 8033 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 37948 views 809 likes

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