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Smile lifts off into space (artist impression)

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How to follow the Smile launch live

12/05/2026 4111 views 29 likes

A beacon of light in swirls of dust

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A beacon of light in swirls of dust

07/05/2026 3051 views 17 likes

Star-forming regions in M51

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Webb & Hubble find massive star clusters emerge faster

06/05/2026 4917 views 62 likes

Smile delivered to space (artist impression, GIF)

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Smile set to launch on 19 May

23/04/2026 4888 views 43 likes

Close-up of Plato’s cameras

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Plato aces space-like tests

23/04/2026 4489 views 41 likes

SOLIS100 isolation study crew

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SOLIS100 isolation study begins in Germany

23/04/2026 6711 views 48 likes

Strong gravitational lenses captured by Euclid

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Euclid Space Warps: help spot galaxies bending spacetime

21/04/2026 6083 views 89 likes

Trifid Nebula (Wide Field Camera 3 Image)

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Hubble turns 36 with a dazzling Trifid Nebula portrait

20/04/2026 6908 views 56 likes

Mars Express captures dark ash covering Mars’s Utopia Planitia

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Ash creeps across Mars

15/04/2026 11855 views 86 likes

Imaged of processed Proba-3 data that highlights movement around the Sun

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First Proba-3 science: surprisingly speedy solar wind

13/04/2026 3732 views 48 likes

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Artemis II: splashdown

11/04/2026 8203 views 93 likes

Light hits graphene aerogel

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Graphene and lasers for space propulsion

07/04/2026 4572 views 36 likes

Comet 3I/ATLAS seen by Juice’s science camera

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Five things Juice has revealed about Comet 3I/ATLAS

02/04/2026 12993 views 129 likes

The Artemis II rocket, with Orion and its European Service Module on top, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

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Artemis II mission begins

02/04/2026 44690 views 292 likes

The Artemis II rocket at its launchpad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

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Watch live: Artemis II launch

31/03/2026 288262 views 755 likes

ESA engineer Luca Fossati in Orion's Mission Evaluation Room in an Artemis II simulation

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European eyes on Artemis

31/03/2026 6258 views 71 likes

Dividing Earth and Moon

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European Service Module engines powering Artemis II

30/03/2026 25442 views 254 likes

Arnaud Prost during VR robotics training

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ESA’s astronaut reserve begins final training block

27/03/2026 729 views 15 likes

Saturn (2024 Webb & Hubble images)

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Webb & Hubble capture new views of Saturn

25/03/2026 8169 views 81 likes

Gamma-Cas and its hungry white dwarf companion

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XRISM solves famous star’s 50-year mystery

24/03/2026 4625 views 69 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 447 views 7 likes

Smile delivered to space (artist impression, GIF)

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T-20 days: Smile to launch on 9 April

20/03/2026 3517 views 39 likes

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS; Nov 2025)

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Hubble unexpectedly catches comet breaking up

18/03/2026 3611 views 56 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 738 views 4 likes

Smile arrives at Europe's Spaceport

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Smile arrives at Europe’s Spaceport

09/03/2026 3126 views 30 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 4348 views 64 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 10863 views 62 likes

Counting craters in Mars’s ancient highlands

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Counting craters

04/03/2026 3329 views 50 likes

Hubble & Euclid: zoom into Cat's Eye Nebula

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Hubble & Euclid zoom into cosmic eye

03/03/2026 8998 views 80 likes

Smile launch kit cover

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Smile launch kit

25/02/2026 2420 views 11 likes

Smile leaving Saint-Nazaire in France

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Smile sets sail for Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana

20/02/2026 3135 views 37 likes

Uranus (January 2025)

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Webb maps Uranus's mysterious upper atmosphere

19/02/2026 15372 views 65 likes

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

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Hubble, Euclid & Subaru uncover dark galaxy

18/02/2026 4607 views 25 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 4393 views 57 likes

εpsilon launch

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

13/02/2026 1094 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 5342 views 42 likes

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Watch live: Crew-12 launch and docking

10/02/2026 18067 views 117 likes

Crew-12 in front of a SpaceX booster

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Crew-12 readies for launch

07/02/2026 1584 views 19 likes

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

05/02/2026 374 views 5 likes

Overhead perspective of Flaugergues Crater

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Explore Mars’s Flaugergues Crater

04/02/2026 3415 views 82 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 6568 views 95 likes

COSMOS Field MoM-z14 Galaxy (NIRCam pullout)

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Webb gazes further back in time

28/01/2026 3115 views 26 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 1557 views 22 likes

Astrophysical anomalies from Hubble’s archive

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1400 quirky objects found in Hubble's archive

27/01/2026 12153 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 1557 views 16 likes

Unleashing a solar flare

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Magnetic avalanches power solar flares, finds Solar Orbiter

21/01/2026 8337 views 58 likes

Slow-motion drop for ExoMars landing platform

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Legs made for a Mars landing 

21/01/2026 5366 views 39 likes

Sophie Adenot exercising on E4D

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Revolutionising astronaut fitness for deep space missions

16/01/2026 4906 views 66 likes

Mars Express sees sandblasted wind sculptures near Eumenides Dorsum

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Sandblasting on Mars

07/01/2026 4227 views 67 likes

Location of Cloud-9

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Cloud-9: a new celestial object found by Hubble

05/01/2026 22216 views 92 likes

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