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Light hits graphene aerogel

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Graphene and lasers for space propulsion

07/04/2026 178 views 3 likes

Smile lifts off into space (artist impression)

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How to follow the Smile launch live

02/04/2026 1976 views 20 likes

Comet 3I/ATLAS seen by Juice’s science camera

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Five things Juice has revealed about Comet 3I/ATLAS

02/04/2026 7865 views 95 likes

The Artemis II rocket, with Orion and its European Service Module on top, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

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Artemis II mission begins

02/04/2026 36106 views 270 likes

The Artemis II rocket at its launchpad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

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Watch live: Artemis II launch

31/03/2026 246810 views 699 likes

ESA engineer Luca Fossati in Orion's Mission Evaluation Room in an Artemis II simulation

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European eyes on Artemis

31/03/2026 4919 views 62 likes

Dividing Earth and Moon

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European Service Module engines powering Artemis II

30/03/2026 17328 views 208 likes

Arnaud Prost during VR robotics training

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ESA’s astronaut reserve begins final training block

27/03/2026 528 views 13 likes

Saturn (2024 Webb & Hubble images)

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Webb & Hubble capture new views of Saturn

25/03/2026 7015 views 78 likes

Gamma-Cas and its hungry white dwarf companion

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XRISM solves famous star’s 50-year mystery

24/03/2026 3710 views 66 likes

Sophie Adenot and Jessica Meir equipped with PhysioTool and T-Mini

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Understanding how the body and mind adapt to microgravity

24/03/2026 233 views 4 likes

Smile delivered to space (artist impression, GIF)

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T-20 days: Smile to launch on 9 April

20/03/2026 2721 views 38 likes

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS; Nov 2025)

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Hubble unexpectedly catches comet breaking up

18/03/2026 2739 views 55 likes

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway are seen preparing for an EchoFinder session aboard the International Space Station during the εpsilon mission.

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Augmented reality and artificial intelligence for ultrasoun…

18/03/2026 586 views 3 likes

Smile arrives at Europe's Spaceport

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Smile arrives at Europe’s Spaceport

09/03/2026 2594 views 28 likes

Mars Express images combined to produce global Mars in colour

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The radiation paradox: why solar maximum is the safest time…

09/03/2026 3876 views 56 likes

Coronal mass ejection on 27 May 2024

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ESA’s Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the Red Plan…

05/03/2026 5357 views 59 likes

Counting craters in Mars’s ancient highlands

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Counting craters

04/03/2026 2960 views 46 likes

Hubble & Euclid: zoom into Cat's Eye Nebula

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Hubble & Euclid zoom into cosmic eye

03/03/2026 7909 views 74 likes

Smile launch kit cover

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Smile launch kit

25/02/2026 1919 views 8 likes

Smile leaving Saint-Nazaire in France

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Smile sets sail for Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana

20/02/2026 2839 views 37 likes

Uranus (January 2025)

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Webb maps Uranus's mysterious upper atmosphere

19/02/2026 14562 views 61 likes

Galaxy field of low-surface-brightness galaxy CDG-2

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Hubble, Euclid & Subaru uncover dark galaxy

18/02/2026 3911 views 24 likes

Crew-12 inside the International Space Station

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Official start of ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot’s εpsilon mis…

14/02/2026 4103 views 57 likes

εpsilon launch

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Successful lift-off for Crew-12 on 13 February 2026

13/02/2026 910 views 6 likes

Artist impression of the planetary system around the star LHS 1903

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Cheops discovers late bloomer from another era

12/02/2026 4863 views 40 likes

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Watch live: Crew-12 launch and docking

10/02/2026 17889 views 117 likes

Crew-12 in front of a SpaceX booster

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Crew-12 readies for launch

07/02/2026 1433 views 19 likes

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A presidential greeting ahead of Sophie Adenot's first spac…

05/02/2026 307 views 5 likes

Overhead perspective of Flaugergues Crater

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Explore Mars’s Flaugergues Crater

04/02/2026 3257 views 80 likes

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 6454 views 95 likes

COSMOS Field MoM-z14 Galaxy (NIRCam pullout)

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Webb gazes further back in time

28/01/2026 2815 views 24 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 1475 views 22 likes

Astrophysical anomalies from Hubble’s archive

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1400 quirky objects found in Hubble's archive

27/01/2026 11759 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 1434 views 16 likes

Unleashing a solar flare

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Magnetic avalanches power solar flares, finds Solar Orbiter

21/01/2026 7867 views 56 likes

Slow-motion drop for ExoMars landing platform

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Legs made for a Mars landing 

21/01/2026 5028 views 39 likes

Sophie Adenot exercising on E4D

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Revolutionising astronaut fitness for deep space missions

16/01/2026 4319 views 64 likes

Mars Express sees sandblasted wind sculptures near Eumenides Dorsum

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Sandblasting on Mars

07/01/2026 4064 views 65 likes

Location of Cloud-9

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Cloud-9: a new celestial object found by Hubble

05/01/2026 21356 views 91 likes

Tree planting for εpsilon

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From roots to rocket

05/01/2026 2333 views 70 likes

Fomalhaut cs1 and cs2 (clean image)

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Hubble sees asteroids colliding around nearby star

18/12/2025 3669 views 26 likes

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20 years in Antarctica

15/12/2025 3652 views 41 likes

Voyage 2050 themes

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Funding boost unlocks future space science programme

10/12/2025 3862 views 22 likes

GRB 250314A Pull-out (NIRCam image)

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Webb identifies earliest supernova to date

09/12/2025 9868 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 23607 views 152 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 9949 views 83 likes

30 years of SOHO imaging the Sun (unannotated)

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Sun-watcher SOHO celebrates thirty years

02/12/2025 6790 views 71 likes

BepiColombo approaches Mercury

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Marking one year until BepiColombo reaches Mercury

21/11/2025 9854 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 5364 views 44 likes

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