ESA - Space Science

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Smile delivered to space (artist impression, GIF)

Science & Exploration

Smile set to launch on 19 May

23/04/2026 2826 views 34 likes

Close-up of Plato’s cameras

Science & Exploration

Plato aces space-like tests

23/04/2026 2807 views 37 likes

Strong gravitational lenses captured by Euclid

Science & Exploration

Euclid Space Warps: help spot galaxies bending spacetime

21/04/2026 4193 views 59 likes

Trifid Nebula (Wide Field Camera 3 Image)

Science & Exploration

Hubble turns 36 with a dazzling Trifid Nebula portrait

20/04/2026 5517 views 42 likes

Mars Express captures dark ash covering Mars’s Utopia Planitia

Science & Exploration

Ash creeps across Mars

15/04/2026 10648 views 84 likes

Journey of Juice cover image

Science & Exploration

The journey of Juice

Video series covering Juice's journey to Jupiter

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ESA's science fleet of Solar System explorers

28/05/2024 93954 views 354 likes
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ESA’s science fleet of cosmic observers

28/05/2024 24564 views 161 likes
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Exoplanet missions
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Black holes
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Science missions

Launch: 2015 Europe’s first mission to Mercury

Europe’s first Red Planet orbiter

Deep space comet rendezvous mission

Launched: 1990 ESA contributed solar arrays and Faint Object Camera

ESA science missions

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Explore all of ESA's science missions

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