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High-contrast coronograph image of TWA 7b

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Webb finds evidence of a lightweight planet around TWA 7

25/06/2025 38084 views 101 likes

Astronomers discover vast filament of ‘missing’ matter

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“The models were right”: astronomers find ‘missing’ matter

19/06/2025 23872 views 80 likes

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Construction of ESA’s ambitious LISA mission begins

17/06/2025 11084 views 48 likes

ESA astronaut Raphaël Liégeois

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Belgian endive, meatballs and microgravity

13/06/2025 1280 views 18 likes

Solar Orbiter's view of the Sun's south pole

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Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s poles

11/06/2025 84197 views 140 likes

Axiom 4 crew inside Dragon

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Watch live: Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski arrives at Internat…

09/06/2025 16708 views 141 likes

Milky Way and Andromeda encounters

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Hubble and Gaia revisit fate of our galaxy

02/06/2025 7463 views 62 likes

Simulated moonwalk shot

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How to capture Moon landing videos – from grainy to HD

28/05/2025 5098 views 45 likes

Running on treadmill during parabolic flight

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Prostheses fit to Fly!

27/05/2025 2405 views 36 likes

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Recipe for a ‘rocky road’ crater soaked in martian history

21/05/2025 3371 views 52 likes

Titan (Webb image - 11 July 2023)

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Titan forecast: partly cloudy with a chance of methane show…

14/05/2025 3411 views 58 likes

Close-up observations of auroras on Jupiter (December 2023)

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Webb reveals new details and mysteries in Jupiter’s aurora

12/05/2025 5409 views 52 likes

Night-time light emissions during blackout in Spain and Portugal

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Back to light

12/05/2025 6734 views 54 likes

Plato’s 24 newly installed cameras

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Plato grows its many eyes

08/05/2025 5284 views 61 likes

Gaia spots odd star family

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Gaia spots odd family of stars desperate to leave home

29/04/2025 8845 views 79 likes

Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski training in Columbus

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Ignis science

28/04/2025 3013 views 33 likes

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ACES finds its home in orbit

25/04/2025 3789 views 46 likes

Celebrating two decades of KUBIK: ESA Astronaut André Kuipers presents at ESTEC

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Celebrating 20 years of KUBIK: a cornerstone of life scienc…

25/04/2025 1211 views 20 likes

Hubble celebrates 35 years

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Hubble celebrates 35th year in orbit

23/04/2025 6576 views 58 likes

No tricks, just treats (M83 MIRI image)

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Webb spots clues of black hole at heart of nearby galaxy M83

17/04/2025 6440 views 24 likes

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Hubble investigates a magnetar’s birthplace

15/04/2025 2438 views 17 likes

ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer wears the ATLAS analogue suit inside the LUNA facility to test virtual reality headsets for future lunar training.

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LUNA’s virtual leap towards the Moon

14/04/2025 2814 views 38 likes

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From boring to bursting: a giant black hole awakens

11/04/2025 13552 views 73 likes

Acheron Fossae as seen by ESA’s Mars Express

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Martian rock on the move

09/04/2025 5469 views 75 likes

Artist view: ExoMars lander

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ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover will have a European landin…

30/03/2025 8609 views 63 likes

JADES-GS-z13-1 in the GOODS-S field (NIRCam image)

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Webb sees galaxy mysteriously clearing fog of early Universe

26/03/2025 4297 views 50 likes

The Cosmic Tornado / Herbig-Haro 49/50 (Webb telescope image)

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Webb unmasks true nature of the Cosmic Tornado

24/03/2025 8411 views 60 likes

Artist's view of the Argonaut lunar lander

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ESA and JAXA strengthen ties on Moon and Mars exploration

20/03/2025 4949 views 49 likes

Euclid Deep Field South, 16x zoom

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Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fi…

19/03/2025 91668 views 204 likes

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Follow the reveal of Euclid’s first catalogue on 19 March

14/03/2025 9755 views 53 likes

Volunteer from third dry immersion study

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Extended space dive

13/03/2025 61888 views 2921 likes

Solar flare seen by Solar Orbiter

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Catch solar bursts in new citizen science project

11/03/2025 11078 views 98 likes

ESA Astronaut Reserve group two at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre

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The ART of training – part two

07/03/2025 2425 views 19 likes

Perfect placement for Smile’s payload module

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When two become one: engineers get Smile ready for launch

06/03/2025 3288 views 48 likes

Integral: gamma-ray observatory

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

28/02/2025 7660 views 74 likes

Why is Mars red?

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Have we been wrong about why Mars is red?

25/02/2025 23136 views 125 likes

Illustration of the Einstein Probe spacecraft.

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Einstein Probe catches X-ray odd couple

18/02/2025 4546 views 51 likes

Pierogi – the ultimate space meal

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Pierogi in space

14/02/2025 29132 views 65 likes

Euclid image of a bright Einstein ring around galaxy NGC 6505

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Euclid discovers a stunning Einstein ring

10/02/2025 56955 views 254 likes

Artist impression of brown dwarf Gaia-5b

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Wobbling stars reveal hidden companions in Gaia data

04/02/2025 11414 views 59 likes

HH 30 (MIRI & NIRCam image)

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Webb investigates a dusty and dynamic disc

04/02/2025 12589 views 66 likes

Artist's view of the Argonaut lunar lander

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Argonaut: a first European lunar lander

30/01/2025 12056 views 141 likes

Artist's impression of Plato

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Planet hunter Plato to fly on Ariane 6

29/01/2025 4729 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 3021 views 9 likes

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

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Einstein Probe detects puzzling cosmic explosion

23/01/2025 8362 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 33138 views 89 likes

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Snooping science on the Moon

15/01/2025 2932 views 30 likes

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

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Last starlight for ground-breaking Gaia

15/01/2025 26988 views 78 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 7950 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 81170 views 299 likes

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