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Arnaud Prost during VR robotics training

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ESA’s astronaut reserve begins final training block

27/03/2026 302 views 8 likes

Saturn (2024 Webb & Hubble images)

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Webb & Hubble capture new views of Saturn

25/03/2026 5626 views 76 likes

Gamma-Cas and its hungry white dwarf companion

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XRISM solves famous star’s 50-year mystery

24/03/2026 3133 views 63 likes

Sophie Adenot and Jessica Meir equipped with PhysioTool and T-Mini

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Understanding how the body and mind adapt to microgravity

24/03/2026 162 views 2 likes

Smile delivered to space (artist impression, GIF)

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T-20 days: Smile to launch on 9 April

20/03/2026 2335 views 35 likes

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS; Nov 2025)

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Hubble unexpectedly catches comet breaking up

18/03/2026 2623 views 54 likes

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway are seen preparing for an EchoFinder session aboard the International Space Station during the εpsilon mission.

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Augmented reality and artificial intelligence for ultrasoun…

18/03/2026 537 views 3 likes

Smile arrives at Europe's Spaceport

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Smile arrives at Europe’s Spaceport

09/03/2026 2463 views 28 likes

Mars Express images combined to produce global Mars in colour

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The radiation paradox: why solar maximum is the safest time…

09/03/2026 3563 views 53 likes

Coronal mass ejection on 27 May 2024

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ESA’s Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the Red Plan…

05/03/2026 5218 views 59 likes

Counting craters in Mars’s ancient highlands

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Counting craters

04/03/2026 2870 views 46 likes

Hubble & Euclid: zoom into Cat's Eye Nebula

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Hubble & Euclid zoom into cosmic eye

03/03/2026 7544 views 74 likes

Smile launch kit cover

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Smile launch kit

25/02/2026 1606 views 7 likes

Smile leaving Saint-Nazaire in France

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Smile sets sail for Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana

20/02/2026 2746 views 36 likes

Uranus (January 2025)

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Webb maps Uranus's mysterious upper atmosphere

19/02/2026 14366 views 60 likes

Galaxy field of low-surface-brightness galaxy CDG-2

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Hubble, Euclid & Subaru uncover dark galaxy

18/02/2026 3764 views 24 likes

Crew-12 inside the International Space Station

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Official start of ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot’s εpsilon mis…

14/02/2026 4015 views 56 likes

εpsilon launch

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Successful lift-off for Crew-12 on 13 February 2026

13/02/2026 859 views 6 likes

Artist impression of the planetary system around the star LHS 1903

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Cheops discovers late bloomer from another era

12/02/2026 4734 views 40 likes

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Watch live: Crew-12 launch and docking

10/02/2026 17799 views 117 likes

Crew-12 in front of a SpaceX booster

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Crew-12 readies for launch

07/02/2026 1404 views 19 likes

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A presidential greeting ahead of Sophie Adenot's first spac…

05/02/2026 295 views 5 likes

Overhead perspective of Flaugergues Crater

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Explore Mars’s Flaugergues Crater

04/02/2026 3208 views 80 likes

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

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Crew-12, scheduled to launch on Wednesday 11 February

29/01/2026 6423 views 95 likes

COSMOS Field MoM-z14 Galaxy (NIRCam pullout)

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Webb gazes further back in time

28/01/2026 2772 views 24 likes

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 crew, from left to right, is NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.

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Watch live: Crew-12 news conference

28/01/2026 1447 views 22 likes

Astrophysical anomalies from Hubble’s archive

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1400 quirky objects found in Hubble's archive

27/01/2026 11663 views 61 likes

Globular cluster targets that revealed “forever young” stars

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Hubble uncovers the secret of stars that defy ageing

21/01/2026 1411 views 16 likes

Unleashing a solar flare

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Magnetic avalanches power solar flares, finds Solar Orbiter

21/01/2026 7779 views 56 likes

Slow-motion drop for ExoMars landing platform

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Legs made for a Mars landing 

21/01/2026 4961 views 39 likes

Sophie Adenot exercising on E4D

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Revolutionising astronaut fitness for deep space missions

16/01/2026 4190 views 64 likes

Mars Express sees sandblasted wind sculptures near Eumenides Dorsum

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Sandblasting on Mars

07/01/2026 4007 views 65 likes

Location of Cloud-9

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Cloud-9: a new celestial object found by Hubble

05/01/2026 21129 views 91 likes

Tree planting for εpsilon

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From roots to rocket

05/01/2026 2313 views 70 likes

Fomalhaut cs1 and cs2 (clean image)

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Hubble sees asteroids colliding around nearby star

18/12/2025 3634 views 26 likes

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20 years in Antarctica

15/12/2025 3605 views 40 likes

Voyage 2050 themes

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Funding boost unlocks future space science programme

10/12/2025 3801 views 22 likes

GRB 250314A Pull-out (NIRCam image)

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Webb identifies earliest supernova to date

09/12/2025 9820 views 29 likes

Artist’s impression of black hole in NGC 3783

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Flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds

09/12/2025 23550 views 152 likes

Bird’s-eye view: the butterflies and dark layers of Idaeus Fossae

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A martian butterfly flaps its wings

03/12/2025 9910 views 83 likes

30 years of SOHO imaging the Sun (unannotated)

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Sun-watcher SOHO celebrates thirty years

02/12/2025 6688 views 71 likes

BepiColombo approaches Mercury

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Marking one year until BepiColombo reaches Mercury

21/11/2025 9697 views 52 likes

ESA and CAS teams working on the Smile mission

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Smile approved for launch in spring 2026

20/11/2025 5092 views 43 likes

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Argonaut lunar lander family grows

20/11/2025 3594 views 38 likes

Webb: CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 in MACS J1149.5+2223

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Webb spots greedy supermassive black hole in early Universe

19/11/2025 12420 views 84 likes

Artist's impression of an explosion on another star

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First confirmed sighting of explosive burst on nearby star

12/11/2025 11255 views 69 likes

The patterns of Coloe Fossae: What a martian ice age left behind

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What a martian ice age left behind

12/11/2025 4786 views 77 likes

Engineers at Airbus in Bremen install one of the shield panels on ESA's European Service Module-4

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European Service Module-4 is ready to sail

10/11/2025 2050 views 38 likes

Mealworms for the space menu

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Insects on the space menu

07/11/2025 6205 views 41 likes

ESA Astronaut Reserve receives new training patch

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ESA’s Astronaut Reserve completes second training phase

30/10/2025 927 views 1 likes

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