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The SpaceX Dragon carrying four Crew-12 members, including ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, nears the International Space Station for a docking to the Harmony module’s space-facing port.

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Crew-12 Walkout with ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot

Crew-12 upon their arrival at the Kennedy Space Center

Crew-12 in front of a SpaceX booster

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For Valentine’s Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission sends love from space, capturing the heart-shaped oasis of Faiyum, just south of Cairo, Egypt.

First Ariane 6 with four boosters launched

Mobile hangar moves back to reveal first Ariane 6 with four boosters on the launch pad

ESA medical doctor Sarah Gaier tests water from the recycling system at Concordia station in Antarctica

Lowering the upper part of Ariane 6 flight VA267 onto the rocket on the launch pad

Ramses contract signature 10 February 2026

Accumulated rainfall over the Iberian Peninsula

The Egg Nebula

Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

With the 2026 Winter Olympics officially opening today, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission brings us a striking view of northern Italy, highlighting several key Olympic venues.

Tropical wetlands Kenya

Columbus KA-band antenna installation

The Artemis II rocket with the full Moon on its launchpad

Overhead perspective of Flaugergues Crater

Technicians prepare Ariane 6 for flight VA267

Dark rings and new light

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the coastal area of Rudong County on China’s eastern seaboard.

Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates collision zone

From left to right: Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot from France.

A dentist at ESA’s European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT) in the UK controlling a robotic arm at the University of Glasgow’s SCENE facility at Loch Lomond.

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Global surface and cloud-top temperatures by MTG-Sounder

Antarctic Peninsula by Sentinel-1D

Global ozone measured by Sentinel-5A

Bolivian forest: comparing Sentinel-2 and Biomass

Solar corona viewed by Proba-3’s ASPIICS

Svalbard, Norway, seen from Sentinel-1C

Hera's first images (Asteroid Framing Camera - Earth)

Arctic Weather Satellite’s first images capture Storm Boris

Seville from Copernicus Sentinel-2C

Vertical distribution of cloud particle concentration

Euclid’s view of the Perseus cluster of galaxies

Full Earth disc from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager

Didymos and Dimorphos seen by DART

Webb’s first deep field

Mercury first impressions

First sea-level height results from Copernicus Sentinel-6

The density of stars from Gaia’s Early Data Release 3

Venus setting

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