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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 6727 views 95 likes

COSMOS Field MoM-z14 Galaxy (NIRCam pullout)

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Webb gazes further back in time

28/01/2026 3290 views 27 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 1644 views 22 likes

Astrophysical anomalies from Hubble’s archive

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1400 quirky objects found in Hubble's archive

27/01/2026 12597 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 1706 views 16 likes

Unleashing a solar flare

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Magnetic avalanches power solar flares, finds Solar Orbiter

21/01/2026 8951 views 60 likes

Slow-motion drop for ExoMars landing platform

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Legs made for a Mars landing 

21/01/2026 5626 views 39 likes

Sophie Adenot exercising on E4D

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Revolutionising astronaut fitness for deep space missions

16/01/2026 5294 views 67 likes

Mars Express sees sandblasted wind sculptures near Eumenides Dorsum

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Sandblasting on Mars

07/01/2026 4392 views 67 likes

Location of Cloud-9

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Cloud-9: a new celestial object found by Hubble

05/01/2026 23286 views 92 likes

Tree planting for εpsilon

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From roots to rocket

05/01/2026 2524 views 70 likes

Fomalhaut cs1 and cs2 (clean image)

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Hubble sees asteroids colliding around nearby star

18/12/2025 3975 views 26 likes

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20 years in Antarctica

15/12/2025 4176 views 42 likes

Voyage 2050 themes

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Funding boost unlocks future space science programme

10/12/2025 4378 views 22 likes

GRB 250314A Pull-out (NIRCam image)

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Webb identifies earliest supernova to date

09/12/2025 10340 views 29 likes

Artist’s impression of black hole in NGC 3783

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Flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds

09/12/2025 24223 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 10295 views 83 likes

30 years of SOHO imaging the Sun (unannotated)

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Sun-watcher SOHO celebrates thirty years

02/12/2025 7484 views 73 likes

BepiColombo approaches Mercury

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Marking one year until BepiColombo reaches Mercury

21/11/2025 10870 views 54 likes

ESA and CAS teams working on the Smile mission

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Smile approved for launch in spring 2026

20/11/2025 6281 views 44 likes

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Argonaut lunar lander family grows

20/11/2025 3937 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 14816 views 85 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 11754 views 70 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 5120 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 2478 views 39 likes

Mealworms for the space menu

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Insects on the space menu

07/11/2025 6614 views 42 likes

ESA Astronaut Reserve receives new training patch

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ESA’s Astronaut Reserve completes second training phase

30/10/2025 1181 views 1 likes

Training in the LUNA facilities

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Second Space Resources Challenge: from concept to reality a…

24/10/2025 3941 views 34 likes

Condensation alien

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Condensation defying gravity

23/10/2025 5406 views 48 likes

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ESA astronauts complete helicopter training in preparation …

17/10/2025 1778 views 26 likes

Plato’s spacecraft is complete

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Completed Plato spacecraft is ready for final tests

09/10/2025 7803 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 10914 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 627569 views 831 likes

Enceladus jets and shadows

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Cassini proves complex chemistry in Enceladus ocean

01/10/2025 31150 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 21668 views 166 likes

Illustration of moon-forming disc

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Webb studies moon-forming disc around massive planet

29/09/2025 3230 views 48 likes

Sagittarius B2 (NIRCam image)

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Webb explores largest star-forming cloud in our galaxy

24/09/2025 6884 views 57 likes

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XRISM uncovers a mystery in the cosmic winds of change

17/09/2025 3926 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 41447 views 102 likes

Columbus laboratory

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Columbus: 100 000 orbits and counting

12/09/2025 3635 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 5002 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 10935 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 4612 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 12040 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 9747 views 53 likes

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No Earth-like atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1 d

13/08/2025 6915 views 44 likes

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Webb finds new hints for planet around closest solar twin

07/08/2025 6081 views 52 likes

Mars Express views Acheron Fossae’s western fringes

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When martian ground falls apart

06/08/2025 4428 views 69 likes

NGC 6072 (NIRCam image)

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Webb traces details of complex planetary nebula

30/07/2025 3315 views 15 likes

Deployment of largest Mars parachute on Earth

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ExoMars parachutes ready for martian deployment

21/07/2025 8900 views 78 likes

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