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Smile delivered to space (artist impression, GIF)

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Smile set to launch on 19 May

23/04/2026 3729 views 41 likes

Close-up of Plato’s cameras

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Plato aces space-like tests

23/04/2026 3618 views 40 likes

Strong gravitational lenses captured by Euclid

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Euclid Space Warps: help spot galaxies bending spacetime

21/04/2026 4867 views 71 likes

Trifid Nebula (Wide Field Camera 3 Image)

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Hubble turns 36 with a dazzling Trifid Nebula portrait

20/04/2026 6516 views 56 likes

Mars Express captures dark ash covering Mars’s Utopia Planitia

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Ash creeps across Mars

15/04/2026 11253 views 84 likes

Imaged of processed Proba-3 data that highlights movement around the Sun

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First Proba-3 science: surprisingly speedy solar wind

13/04/2026 3410 views 47 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 12271 views 124 likes

Saturn (2024 Webb & Hubble images)

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Webb & Hubble capture new views of Saturn

25/03/2026 7819 views 81 likes

Gamma-Cas and its hungry white dwarf companion

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XRISM solves famous star’s 50-year mystery

24/03/2026 4388 views 69 likes

Smile delivered to space (artist impression, GIF)

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T-20 days: Smile to launch on 9 April

20/03/2026 3307 views 39 likes

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS; Nov 2025)

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Hubble unexpectedly catches comet breaking up

18/03/2026 3405 views 56 likes

Smile arrives at Europe's Spaceport

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Smile arrives at Europe’s Spaceport

09/03/2026 2821 views 29 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 10689 views 62 likes

Counting craters in Mars’s ancient highlands

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Counting craters

04/03/2026 3262 views 50 likes

Hubble & Euclid: zoom into Cat's Eye Nebula

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Hubble & Euclid zoom into cosmic eye

03/03/2026 8715 views 78 likes

Smile leaving Saint-Nazaire in France

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Smile sets sail for Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana

20/02/2026 3082 views 37 likes

Uranus (January 2025)

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Webb maps Uranus's mysterious upper atmosphere

19/02/2026 15087 views 63 likes

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

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Hubble, Euclid & Subaru uncover dark galaxy

18/02/2026 4404 views 25 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 5233 views 41 likes

Overhead perspective of Flaugergues Crater

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Explore Mars’s Flaugergues Crater

04/02/2026 3365 views 82 likes

COSMOS Field MoM-z14 Galaxy (NIRCam pullout)

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Webb gazes further back in time

28/01/2026 3027 views 26 likes

Astrophysical anomalies from Hubble’s archive

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1400 quirky objects found in Hubble's archive

27/01/2026 12012 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 1519 views 16 likes

Unleashing a solar flare

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Magnetic avalanches power solar flares, finds Solar Orbiter

21/01/2026 8197 views 58 likes

Mars Express sees sandblasted wind sculptures near Eumenides Dorsum

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Sandblasting on Mars

07/01/2026 4178 views 66 likes

Location of Cloud-9

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Cloud-9: a new celestial object found by Hubble

05/01/2026 21900 views 92 likes

Fomalhaut cs1 and cs2 (clean image)

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Hubble sees asteroids colliding around nearby star

18/12/2025 3769 views 26 likes

Voyage 2050 themes

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Funding boost unlocks future space science programme

10/12/2025 4102 views 22 likes

GRB 250314A Pull-out (NIRCam image)

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Webb identifies earliest supernova to date

09/12/2025 10031 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 23805 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 10094 views 83 likes

30 years of SOHO imaging the Sun (unannotated)

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Sun-watcher SOHO celebrates thirty years

02/12/2025 7031 views 71 likes

Lessons from the November 2025 solar storm

21/11/2025 14040 views 73 likes

BepiColombo approaches Mercury

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Marking one year until BepiColombo reaches Mercury

21/11/2025 10251 views 53 likes

ESA and CAS teams working on the Smile mission

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Smile approved for launch in spring 2026

20/11/2025 5791 views 44 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 13225 views 85 likes

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

ESA pinpoints 3I/ATLAS’s path with data from Mars

14/11/2025 153002 views 216 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 11432 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 4894 views 77 likes

Plato’s spacecraft is complete

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Completed Plato spacecraft is ready for final tests

09/10/2025 7536 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 10424 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 626557 views 831 likes

Enceladus jets and shadows

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Cassini proves complex chemistry in Enceladus ocean

01/10/2025 29921 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 20676 views 164 likes

Illustration of moon-forming disc

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Webb studies moon-forming disc around massive planet

29/09/2025 3042 views 48 likes

Sagittarius B2 (NIRCam image)

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Webb explores largest star-forming cloud in our galaxy

24/09/2025 6639 views 57 likes

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XRISM uncovers a mystery in the cosmic winds of change

17/09/2025 3717 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 38821 views 100 likes

Plato sailing to the Netherlands by boat

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Plato arrived at ESA’s test centre by boat

11/09/2025 4730 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 10628 views 69 likes

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