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Perfect placement for Smile’s payload module

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When two become one: engineers get Smile ready for launch

06/03/2025 2921 views 48 likes

Integral: gamma-ray observatory

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

28/02/2025 7352 views 74 likes

Why is Mars red?

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Have we been wrong about why Mars is red?

25/02/2025 21952 views 125 likes

Illustration of the Einstein Probe spacecraft.

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Einstein Probe catches X-ray odd couple

18/02/2025 4370 views 51 likes

Pierogi – the ultimate space meal

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Pierogi in space

14/02/2025 28825 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 53903 views 250 likes

Artist impression of brown dwarf Gaia-5b

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Wobbling stars reveal hidden companions in Gaia data

04/02/2025 10878 views 59 likes

HH 30 (MIRI & NIRCam image)

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Webb investigates a dusty and dynamic disc

04/02/2025 12216 views 65 likes

Artist's view of the Argonaut lunar lander

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Argonaut: a first European lunar lander

30/01/2025 11461 views 140 likes

Artist's impression of Plato

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Planet hunter Plato to fly on Ariane 6

29/01/2025 4472 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 2737 views 7 likes

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

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Einstein Probe detects puzzling cosmic explosion

23/01/2025 7994 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 31816 views 86 likes

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Snooping science on the Moon

15/01/2025 2792 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 26180 views 76 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 7806 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 78635 views 297 likes

BepiColombo's sixth flyby route through Mercury's magnetic environment

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BepiColombo to swing by Mercury for the sixth time

06/01/2025 11703 views 69 likes

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The ART of training

20/12/2024 3742 views 32 likes

Frosty scene at the south pole of Mars

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Dreaming of a white Christmas – on Mars

18/12/2024 4600 views 64 likes

Portuguese submarine for space research

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Submarines for space exploration

17/12/2024 8103 views 51 likes

NGC 346 (Webb)

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Planet-forming discs lived longer in early Universe

16/12/2024 4637 views 33 likes

Galaxy cluster MACS J1423 (NIRCam image)

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Webb finds primeval star-forming galaxy that is lightweight

11/12/2024 4380 views 51 likes

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XMM-Newton celebrates 25 years of breakthroughs

10/12/2024 4452 views 68 likes

First mid-infrared light observations of Mercury

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BepiColombo reveals Mercury in a new light

09/12/2024 11390 views 107 likes

Spiderweb Protocluster (NIRCam)

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Webb finds surprises in Spiderweb protocluster field

04/12/2024 6733 views 56 likes

Proba-3 satellites form artificial eclipse

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Five space mysteries Proba-3 will help solve

03/12/2024 22447 views 199 likes

Experiment on immune system takes a sounding rocket ride

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European science takes express ride into space

27/11/2024 1885 views 36 likes

Sombrero galaxy (MIRI)

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Sombrero Galaxy dazzles in new Webb image

25/11/2024 14702 views 103 likes

The Sun's surface as seen by Solar Orbiter's PHI instrument

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New full Sun views show sunspots, fields and restless plasm…

20/11/2024 110863 views 130 likes

AI-generated image for the banner of Space for Inspiration

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Space for Inspiration: shaping new markets beyond Earth

14/11/2024 2221 views 24 likes

Descending to a comet

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Philae’s extraordinary comet landing relived

12/11/2024 7738 views 54 likes

Mars Express images combined to produce global Mars in colour

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Happy New Year on Mars

12/11/2024 24718 views 335 likes

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Join the Space Resources Challenge

01/11/2024 4124 views 31 likes

Webb and Hubble images overlapping

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Webb and Hubble examine spooky galaxy pair

31/10/2024 5050 views 61 likes

NGC 602 (NIRCam and MIRI image)

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First young brown dwarfs found outside the Milky Way?

23/10/2024 10986 views 99 likes

Hubble's view on symbiotic binary star R Aquarii

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Hubble captures intricacies of R Aquarii

16/10/2024 4405 views 14 likes

Mosaic of Euclid observations in the Southern Sky

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Zoom into the first page of ESA Euclid’s great cosmic atlas

15/10/2024 354615 views 447 likes

ESPRIT refueling module on Gateway

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Gateway refuelling module gets a boost

14/10/2024 2134 views 23 likes

Europa Clipper artist’s concept

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Juice and Europa Clipper: Dream team to Jupiter

14/10/2024 12538 views 77 likes

Cryptic terrain in Australe Scopuli on Mars

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Cryptic Mars, a land shaped by ice

09/10/2024 6369 views 82 likes

Moon shot

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Moon vision

08/10/2024 3158 views 42 likes

Mercury’s magnetosphere during BepiColombo’s third flyby (unannotated)

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Mercury’s magnetic landscape mapped in 30 minutes

03/10/2024 5463 views 63 likes

Hubble's view of M87 galaxy

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Hubble sees black hole beam boosting stellar eruptions

26/09/2024 4446 views 19 likes

Galaxy GS-NDG-9422

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Webb finds potential missing link to first stars

25/09/2024 4172 views 68 likes

Artist impression of the supermassive black hole in NGC 4151

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XRISM unveils black hole and supernova remnant surroundings

20/09/2024 5573 views 53 likes

Supermassive black holes in Hubble Ultra Deep Field

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Hubble finds more black holes in the early Universe

17/09/2024 4207 views 45 likes

Rosetta at Comet (landscape)

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Rosetta's legacy: how were you inspired?

10/09/2024 4140 views 32 likes

Juice’s view of the Pacific Ocean in three wavelengths

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Juice confirms that Earth is habitable

10/09/2024 42283 views 105 likes

Cluster satellite reenters Earth's atmosphere

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Goodnight, Cluster: brilliant end to trailblazing mission

09/09/2024 11789 views 53 likes

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