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Illustration of moon-forming disc

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Webb studies moon-forming disc around massive planet

29/09/2025 3368 views 48 likes

Sagittarius B2 (NIRCam image)

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Webb explores largest star-forming cloud in our galaxy

24/09/2025 7105 views 57 likes

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XRISM uncovers a mystery in the cosmic winds of change

17/09/2025 4069 views 49 likes

Gaia sees stellar nurseries (animation still)

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Fly through Gaia’s 3D map of stellar nurseries

16/09/2025 43020 views 104 likes

Columbus laboratory

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Columbus: 100 000 orbits and counting

12/09/2025 3747 views 46 likes

Plato sailing to the Netherlands by boat

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Plato arrived at ESA’s test centre by boat

11/09/2025 5222 views 49 likes

Graphic indicating how Solar Orbiter let us see the connection between energetic electrons in space and their sources on the Sun

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Double trouble: Solar Orbiter traces superfast electrons ba…

01/09/2025 11175 views 70 likes

Webb's view of planet-forming disc IRAS 04302+2247

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Dusty wisps round a dusty disc

29/08/2025 4788 views 70 likes

Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302 (Webb & ALMA image)

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Webb investigates complex heart of a cosmic butterfly

27/08/2025 12419 views 82 likes

Stellar families in Gaia’s sky

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Gaia proves our skies are filled with chains of starry gath…

26/08/2025 10031 views 53 likes

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No Earth-like atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1 d

13/08/2025 7392 views 44 likes

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Webb finds new hints for planet around closest solar twin

07/08/2025 6296 views 52 likes

Mars Express views Acheron Fossae’s western fringes

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When martian ground falls apart

06/08/2025 4581 views 69 likes

NGC 6072 (NIRCam image)

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Webb traces details of complex planetary nebula

30/07/2025 3457 views 15 likes

Deployment of largest Mars parachute on Earth

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ExoMars parachutes ready for martian deployment

21/07/2025 9059 views 78 likes

First radargram from Juice’s RIME instrument

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New Apollo Earthrise view shows Juice’s RIME working well

18/07/2025 6171 views 76 likes

Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski using the Melfi freezer

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How space research is advancing health on Earth and beyond

16/07/2025 3585 views 34 likes

Smile sees the light

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Smile passes gruelling set of tests

15/07/2025 4119 views 40 likes

Ignis patch in Cupola

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Ignis mission highlights

15/07/2025 5006 views 75 likes

Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski in Cupola

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Watch live: Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski returns to Earth

11/07/2025 5708 views 30 likes

Cat’s Paw Nebula (NIRCam)

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Webb scratches under Cat’s Paw Nebula for third anniversary

10/07/2025 7107 views 66 likes

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b triggers flares from its host star (artist’s impression)

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Clingy planets can trigger own doom, suspect Cheops and TESS

02/07/2025 5279 views 57 likes

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A pinch of France in space

01/07/2025 3668 views 36 likes

Arcadia Planitia as seen by ESA’s Mars Express

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Earth tones on Mars

26/06/2025 5312 views 47 likes

High-contrast coronograph image of TWA 7b

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Webb finds evidence of a lightweight planet around TWA 7

25/06/2025 38783 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 24349 views 80 likes

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Construction of ESA’s ambitious LISA mission begins

17/06/2025 11956 views 49 likes

ESA astronaut Raphaël Liégeois

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Belgian endive, meatballs and microgravity

13/06/2025 1453 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 86773 views 141 likes

Axiom 4 crew inside Dragon

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Watch live: Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski arrives at Internat…

09/06/2025 17209 views 141 likes

Milky Way and Andromeda encounters

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Hubble and Gaia revisit fate of our galaxy

02/06/2025 8477 views 63 likes

Simulated moonwalk shot

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How to capture Moon landing videos – from grainy to HD

28/05/2025 5395 views 45 likes

Running on treadmill during parabolic flight

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Prostheses fit to Fly!

27/05/2025 2695 views 37 likes

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

21/05/2025 3667 views 53 likes

Titan (Webb image - 11 July 2023)

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

14/05/2025 3747 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 5784 views 52 likes

Night-time light emissions during blackout in Spain and Portugal

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Back to light

12/05/2025 7003 views 54 likes

Plato’s 24 newly installed cameras

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Plato grows its many eyes

08/05/2025 5607 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 9195 views 79 likes

Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski training in Columbus

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Ignis science

28/04/2025 3289 views 33 likes

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ACES finds its home in orbit

25/04/2025 4177 views 47 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 1374 views 20 likes

Hubble celebrates 35 years

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Hubble celebrates 35th year in orbit

23/04/2025 6967 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 6696 views 24 likes

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Hubble investigates a magnetar’s birthplace

15/04/2025 2676 views 18 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 3042 views 38 likes

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From boring to bursting: a giant black hole awakens

11/04/2025 15645 views 76 likes

Acheron Fossae as seen by ESA’s Mars Express

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Martian rock on the move

09/04/2025 5745 views 75 likes

Artist view: ExoMars lander

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ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover will have a European landin…

30/03/2025 9222 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 4783 views 50 likes

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