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Artist’s impression of black hole in NGC 3783

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Flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds

09/12/2025 23745 views 153 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 10060 views 83 likes

30 years of SOHO imaging the Sun (unannotated)

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Sun-watcher SOHO celebrates thirty years

02/12/2025 6948 views 71 likes

BepiColombo approaches Mercury

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Marking one year until BepiColombo reaches Mercury

21/11/2025 10122 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 5731 views 44 likes

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Argonaut lunar lander family grows

20/11/2025 3703 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 13018 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 11388 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 4874 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 2265 views 39 likes

Mealworms for the space menu

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Insects on the space menu

07/11/2025 6320 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 984 views 1 likes

Training in the LUNA facilities

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Second Space Resources Challenge: from concept to reality a…

24/10/2025 3730 views 33 likes

Condensation alien

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Condensation defying gravity

23/10/2025 5064 views 48 likes

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ESA astronauts complete helicopter training in preparation …

17/10/2025 1592 views 26 likes

Plato’s spacecraft is complete

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Completed Plato spacecraft is ready for final tests

09/10/2025 7499 views 51 likes

Mars Express sees a dust devil dancing across Mars

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Dancing dust devils trace raging winds on Mars

08/10/2025 10326 views 62 likes

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter observes comet 3I/ATLAS – GIF

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ESA’s ExoMars and Mars Express observe comet 3I/ATLAS

07/10/2025 626392 views 831 likes

Enceladus jets and shadows

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Cassini proves complex chemistry in Enceladus ocean

01/10/2025 29615 views 96 likes

Edge-on view of our galaxy's great wave

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Gaia discovers our galaxy’s great wave

30/09/2025 20481 views 164 likes

Illustration of moon-forming disc

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Webb studies moon-forming disc around massive planet

29/09/2025 3011 views 48 likes

Sagittarius B2 (NIRCam image)

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Webb explores largest star-forming cloud in our galaxy

24/09/2025 6599 views 57 likes

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XRISM uncovers a mystery in the cosmic winds of change

17/09/2025 3697 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 38248 views 100 likes

Columbus laboratory

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Columbus: 100 000 orbits and counting

12/09/2025 3484 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 4698 views 48 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 10591 views 69 likes

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

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Dusty wisps round a dusty disc

29/08/2025 4370 views 68 likes

Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302 (Webb & ALMA image)

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Webb investigates complex heart of a cosmic butterfly

27/08/2025 11527 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 9231 views 53 likes

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No Earth-like atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1 d

13/08/2025 5973 views 44 likes

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Webb finds new hints for planet around closest solar twin

07/08/2025 5789 views 52 likes

Mars Express views Acheron Fossae’s western fringes

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When martian ground falls apart

06/08/2025 4209 views 69 likes

NGC 6072 (NIRCam image)

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Webb traces details of complex planetary nebula

30/07/2025 3101 views 15 likes

Deployment of largest Mars parachute on Earth

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ExoMars parachutes ready for martian deployment

21/07/2025 8658 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 5705 views 74 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 2901 views 33 likes

Smile sees the light

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Smile passes gruelling set of tests

15/07/2025 3545 views 40 likes

Ignis patch in Cupola

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Ignis mission highlights

15/07/2025 4652 views 74 likes

Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski in Cupola

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Watch live: Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski returns to Earth

11/07/2025 5479 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 6680 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 4870 views 56 likes

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A pinch of France in space

01/07/2025 3279 views 36 likes

Arcadia Planitia as seen by ESA’s Mars Express

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Earth tones on Mars

26/06/2025 4810 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 37992 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 23730 views 80 likes

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Construction of ESA’s ambitious LISA mission begins

17/06/2025 10745 views 48 likes

ESA astronaut Raphaël Liégeois

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Belgian endive, meatballs and microgravity

13/06/2025 1261 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 83770 views 139 likes

Axiom 4 crew inside Dragon

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Watch live: Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski arrives at Internat…

09/06/2025 16665 views 141 likes

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