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Smile leaving Saint-Nazaire in France

Science & Exploration

Smile sets sail for Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana

20/02/2026 1986 views 27 likes

Uranus (January 2025)

Science & Exploration

Webb maps Uranus's mysterious upper atmosphere

19/02/2026 11293 views 54 likes

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

Science & Exploration

Hubble, Euclid & Subaru uncover dark galaxy

18/02/2026 2317 views 20 likes

Artist impression of the planetary system around the star LHS 1903

Science & Exploration

Cheops discovers late bloomer from another era

12/02/2026 3866 views 38 likes

Overhead perspective of Flaugergues Crater

Science & Exploration

Explore Mars’s Flaugergues Crater

04/02/2026 2944 views 76 likes

COSMOS Field MoM-z14 Galaxy (NIRCam pullout)

Science & Exploration

Webb gazes further back in time

28/01/2026 2457 views 22 likes

Astrophysical anomalies from Hubble’s archive

Science & Exploration

1400 quirky objects found in Hubble's archive

27/01/2026 10942 views 58 likes

Globular cluster targets that revealed “forever young” stars

Science & Exploration

Hubble uncovers the secret of stars that defy ageing

21/01/2026 1280 views 16 likes

Unleashing a solar flare

Science & Exploration

Magnetic avalanches power solar flares, finds Solar Orbiter

21/01/2026 7135 views 54 likes

Mars Express sees sandblasted wind sculptures near Eumenides Dorsum

Science & Exploration

Sandblasting on Mars

07/01/2026 3740 views 64 likes

Location of Cloud-9

Science & Exploration

Cloud-9: a new celestial object found by Hubble

05/01/2026 20225 views 91 likes

Fomalhaut cs1 and cs2 (clean image)

Science & Exploration

Hubble sees asteroids colliding around nearby star

18/12/2025 3491 views 25 likes

Voyage 2050 themes

Science & Exploration

Funding boost unlocks future space science programme

10/12/2025 3490 views 22 likes

GRB 250314A Pull-out (NIRCam image)

Science & Exploration

Webb identifies earliest supernova to date

09/12/2025 9588 views 29 likes

Artist’s impression of black hole in NGC 3783

Science & Exploration

Flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds

09/12/2025 23214 views 152 likes

Bird’s-eye view: the butterflies and dark layers of Idaeus Fossae

Science & Exploration

A martian butterfly flaps its wings

03/12/2025 9696 views 83 likes

30 years of SOHO imaging the Sun (unannotated)

Science & Exploration

Sun-watcher SOHO celebrates thirty years

02/12/2025 6212 views 71 likes

Lessons from the November 2025 solar storm

21/11/2025 12791 views 72 likes

BepiColombo approaches Mercury

Science & Exploration

Marking one year until BepiColombo reaches Mercury

21/11/2025 9173 views 51 likes

ESA and CAS teams working on the Smile mission

Science & Exploration

Smile approved for launch in spring 2026

20/11/2025 4532 views 43 likes

Webb: CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 in MACS J1149.5+2223

Science & Exploration

Webb spots greedy supermassive black hole in early Universe

19/11/2025 11678 views 84 likes

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

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

14/11/2025 151783 views 216 likes

Artist's impression of an explosion on another star

Science & Exploration

First confirmed sighting of explosive burst on nearby star

12/11/2025 10858 views 69 likes

The patterns of Coloe Fossae: What a martian ice age left behind

Science & Exploration

What a martian ice age left behind

12/11/2025 4674 views 77 likes

Plato’s spacecraft is complete

Science & Exploration

Completed Plato spacecraft is ready for final tests

09/10/2025 7182 views 50 likes

Mars Express sees a dust devil dancing across Mars

Science & Exploration

Dancing dust devils trace raging winds on Mars

08/10/2025 9755 views 60 likes

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

Science & Exploration

ESA’s ExoMars and Mars Express observe comet 3I/ATLAS

07/10/2025 624888 views 831 likes

Enceladus jets and shadows

Science & Exploration

Cassini proves complex chemistry in Enceladus ocean

01/10/2025 28246 views 92 likes

Edge-on view of our galaxy's great wave

Science & Exploration

Gaia discovers our galaxy’s great wave

30/09/2025 19247 views 161 likes

Illustration of moon-forming disc

Science & Exploration

Webb studies moon-forming disc around massive planet

29/09/2025 2812 views 48 likes

Sagittarius B2 (NIRCam image)

Science & Exploration

Webb explores largest star-forming cloud in our galaxy

24/09/2025 6328 views 57 likes

Science & Exploration

XRISM uncovers a mystery in the cosmic winds of change

17/09/2025 3569 views 49 likes

Gaia sees stellar nurseries (animation still)

Science & Exploration

Fly through Gaia’s 3D map of stellar nurseries

16/09/2025 34140 views 95 likes

Plato sailing to the Netherlands by boat

Science & Exploration

Plato arrived at ESA’s test centre by boat

11/09/2025 4521 views 48 likes

Graphic indicating how Solar Orbiter let us see the connection between energetic electrons in space and their sources on the Sun

Science & Exploration

Double trouble: Solar Orbiter traces superfast electrons ba…

01/09/2025 10287 views 68 likes

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

Science & Exploration

Dusty wisps round a dusty disc

29/08/2025 4219 views 68 likes

Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302 (Webb & ALMA image)

Science & Exploration

Webb investigates complex heart of a cosmic butterfly

27/08/2025 11145 views 82 likes

Stellar families in Gaia’s sky

Science & Exploration

Gaia proves our skies are filled with chains of starry gath…

26/08/2025 8795 views 53 likes

Science & Exploration

No Earth-like atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1 d

13/08/2025 5486 views 43 likes

Science & Exploration

Webb finds new hints for planet around closest solar twin

07/08/2025 5551 views 52 likes

Mars Express views Acheron Fossae’s western fringes

Science & Exploration

When martian ground falls apart

06/08/2025 4124 views 69 likes

NGC 6072 (NIRCam image)

Science & Exploration

Webb traces details of complex planetary nebula

30/07/2025 2970 views 15 likes

First radargram from Juice’s RIME instrument

Science & Exploration

New Apollo Earthrise view shows Juice’s RIME working well

18/07/2025 5490 views 73 likes

Smile sees the light

Science & Exploration

Smile passes gruelling set of tests

15/07/2025 3323 views 40 likes

Cat’s Paw Nebula (NIRCam)

Science & Exploration

Webb scratches under Cat’s Paw Nebula for third anniversary

10/07/2025 6525 views 66 likes

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b triggers flares from its host star (artist’s impression)

Science & Exploration

Clingy planets can trigger own doom, suspect Cheops and TESS

02/07/2025 4699 views 56 likes

Arcadia Planitia as seen by ESA’s Mars Express

Science & Exploration

Earth tones on Mars

26/06/2025 4549 views 47 likes

High-contrast coronograph image of TWA 7b

Science & Exploration

Webb finds evidence of a lightweight planet around TWA 7

25/06/2025 37778 views 101 likes

Astronomers discover vast filament of ‘missing’ matter

Science & Exploration

“The models were right”: astronomers find ‘missing’ matter

19/06/2025 23397 views 80 likes

Science & Exploration

Construction of ESA’s ambitious LISA mission begins

17/06/2025 9919 views 46 likes

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