ESA - Science & Exploration - Archive

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Fomalhaut cs1 and cs2 (clean image)

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Hubble sees asteroids colliding around nearby star

18/12/2025 2385 views 17 likes

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20 years in Antarctica

15/12/2025 2755 views 30 likes

Voyage 2050 themes

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Funding boost unlocks future space science programme

10/12/2025 2522 views 17 likes

GRB 250314A Pull-out (NIRCam image)

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Webb identifies earliest supernova to date

09/12/2025 2207 views 22 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 21478 views 145 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 8823 views 81 likes

30 years of SOHO imaging the Sun (unannotated)

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Sun-watcher SOHO celebrates thirty years

02/12/2025 4914 views 63 likes

BepiColombo approaches Mercury

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Marking one year until BepiColombo reaches Mercury

21/11/2025 7785 views 50 likes

ESA and CAS teams working on the Smile mission

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Smile approved for launch in spring 2026

20/11/2025 3392 views 40 likes

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Argonaut lunar lander family grows

20/11/2025 2988 views 36 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 9642 views 81 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 10080 views 67 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 4218 views 76 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 1594 views 35 likes

Mealworms for the space menu

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Insects on the space menu

07/11/2025 5613 views 40 likes

ESA Astronaut Reserve receives new training patch

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ESA’s Astronaut Reserve completes second training phase

30/10/2025 727 views 1 likes

Training in the LUNA facilities

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Second Space Resources Challenge: from concept to reality a…

24/10/2025 3138 views 33 likes

Condensation alien

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Condensation defying gravity

23/10/2025 4554 views 48 likes

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ESA astronauts complete helicopter training in preparation …

17/10/2025 1259 views 25 likes

Plato’s spacecraft is complete

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Completed Plato spacecraft is ready for final tests

09/10/2025 6584 views 45 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 8986 views 60 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 621336 views 829 likes

Enceladus jets and shadows

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Cassini proves complex chemistry in Enceladus ocean

01/10/2025 27122 views 92 likes

Edge-on view of our galaxy's great wave

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Gaia discovers our galaxy’s great wave

30/09/2025 17411 views 148 likes

Illustration of moon-forming disc

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Webb studies moon-forming disc around massive planet

29/09/2025 2395 views 48 likes

Sagittarius B2 (NIRCam image)

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Webb explores largest star-forming cloud in our galaxy

24/09/2025 5932 views 56 likes

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XRISM uncovers a mystery in the cosmic winds of change

17/09/2025 3381 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 28747 views 89 likes

Columbus laboratory

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Columbus: 100 000 orbits and counting

12/09/2025 3108 views 43 likes

Plato sailing to the Netherlands by boat

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Plato arrived at ESA’s test centre by boat

11/09/2025 4274 views 45 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 9961 views 68 likes

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

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Dusty wisps round a dusty disc

29/08/2025 3952 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 10627 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 8229 views 53 likes

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No Earth-like atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1 d

13/08/2025 5044 views 43 likes

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Webb finds new hints for planet around closest solar twin

07/08/2025 5201 views 52 likes

Mars Express views Acheron Fossae’s western fringes

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When martian ground falls apart

06/08/2025 3930 views 69 likes

NGC 6072 (NIRCam image)

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Webb traces details of complex planetary nebula

30/07/2025 2739 views 14 likes

Deployment of largest Mars parachute on Earth

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ExoMars parachutes ready for martian deployment

21/07/2025 8263 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 5148 views 73 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 2231 views 30 likes

Smile sees the light

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Smile passes gruelling set of tests

15/07/2025 3112 views 40 likes

Ignis patch in Cupola

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Ignis mission highlights

15/07/2025 4205 views 73 likes

Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski in Cupola

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Watch live: Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski returns to Earth

11/07/2025 5248 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 6347 views 65 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 4478 views 54 likes

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A pinch of France in space

01/07/2025 2773 views 32 likes

Arcadia Planitia as seen by ESA’s Mars Express

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Earth tones on Mars

26/06/2025 4305 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 37468 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 22972 views 79 likes

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