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A patch on the Moon with red circles represented craters identified by an ESA-developed artificial intelligence model.

Stars brewing in a nebulous cauldron

A render of ESA's Argonaut lunar lander on the Moon's surface

A render of ESA's Argonaut lunar lander on the Moon's surface

MMX lifts off to Mars’s moon Phobos

Comet C/2026 S1 (Euclid) streaks across the sky

Comet C/2026 S1 (Euclid) streaks across the sky (annotated)

Comet C/2026 S1 (Euclid) observations in context

A composite of eight Euclid VIS exposures of Comet C/2026 S1 (Euclid).

A render of OASIS on Argonaut on the lunar surface

Over the summer, a team from NASA's Johnson Space Center joined the European Lunar Link team at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, for a successful end-to-end communications demonstration between Lunar Link and a simulated user on the Moon.

Lunar Link electromagnetic compatibility testing at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France in July 2026.

A balloon-assisted antenna deployment test at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France.

Engineers from the Lunar Link team and NASA's Johnson Space Center at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, next to the large balloons used to test antenna deployment.

An artist impression of Moonraker mapping the Moon from orbit

A render of Máni, a lunar orbiter led by the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, imaging the Moon.

The Lunar Link team at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France.

Fly over Africa with Juice

Trace Gas Orbiter — Facts and figures

Drilling down for the Moon

Map of Mars’s Amazonis Mensa in context

Where winds blow and lava flows

The Rover Permittivity Sensor electronics board undergoing acceptance testing at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

ESA's Rover Permittivity Sensor suite during testing at ESTEC, ESA's technical centre.

MMX from launch to Phobos

MMX at Mars and Phobos

The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission

The exploration mass spectrometer model is ready for shipment to JAXA.

Kayser Italia and ESA team members at the test readiness review of the exploration mass spectrometer model ahead of thermal vacuum testing at Criotec facilities in Chivasso, Italy.

Exploration mass spectrometer structural thermal model during mechanical tests at the CIRA test facility in Naples, Italy.

First post-flight rehabilitation session

Installing PASTA-3 in FSL

ExoMars teams by Amalia rover

Tackling a tilted descent

Rover takes first steps down the ramps

Mars rover rolls down the ramp

Artist impression of Lunar Pathfinder in orbit around the Moon

Lunar Pathfinder during its integration and testing campaign at SSTL, United Kingdom

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