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Key visual of Expedition Sound, an ESA Space Science podcast series

Science & Exploration

Expedition Sound podcast series

16/07/2026 1071 views 32 likes

Mars Express spies metallic waves in Mars’s ancient highlands

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Metallic waves on ancient Mars

15/07/2026 3168 views 59 likes

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Webb reveals millions of stars in nearby galaxy

06/07/2026 2294 views 16 likes

Artist’s concept of an ancient quasar

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Euclid discovers the most ancient quasar in the Universe

06/07/2026 8639 views 78 likes

Exoplanet WD 1856 b (artist’s concept)

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Webb studies how a planet survived the death of its star

01/07/2026 2876 views 34 likes

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XMM-Newton helps revise distance to outer spiral arms

01/07/2026 3740 views 52 likes

Euclid’s view of our galaxy’s bulge (16:9 cutout)

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ESA’s Euclid captures the Milky Way’s crowded heart

24/06/2026 124989 views 195 likes

The BepiColombo mission team eagerly gathers at ESOC's Main Control Room waiting to receive signal confirmation of the successful shutdown of the spacecraft's solar electric propulsion system.

Enabling & Support

End of the blue glow: BepiColombo turns off solar electric …

24/06/2026 5552 views 68 likes

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (NIRSpec IFU)

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Webb finds clues to ancient origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS

22/06/2026 4743 views 54 likes

Dust devils galore: Mars Express visits Mamers Valles on Mars

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Dozens of dust devils hidden in plain sight

17/06/2026 3333 views 48 likes

Bulge fossil fragment Terzan 5 (Webb and Hubble image)

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Webb & Hubble reveal relic of our galaxy’s formation

16/06/2026 2391 views 52 likes

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ESA science missions get green light for new discoveries

11/06/2026 5790 views 16 likes

Simulated Arrakihs mock image of a galaxy halo

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ESA adopts galactic archaeology mission Arrakihs

10/06/2026 6495 views 72 likes

Little Red Dot Abell2744-QSO1 (NIRCam Image)

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Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy

27/05/2026 5896 views 56 likes

Artist's view of the ICI-5 mission flying through the aurora borealis and deploying daughter payloads

ESA’s Prodex programme brings scientific research to space

22/05/2026 2225 views 58 likes

Solar eclipse (artist impression)

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Join ESA for a total solar eclipse on 12 August 2026

21/05/2026 35375 views 147 likes

Wide view of Vega-C liftoff with Smile

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Smile lifts off on quest to reveal Earth’s invisible shield…

19/05/2026 10189 views 55 likes

Mars Express visits Shalbatana Vallis on Mars

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Waterworn chaos on Mars

13/05/2026 4515 views 100 likes

Smile lifts off into space (artist impression)

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How to follow the Smile launch live

12/05/2026 11158 views 64 likes

A beacon of light in swirls of dust

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A beacon of light in swirls of dust

07/05/2026 5746 views 27 likes

Star-forming regions in M51

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Webb & Hubble find massive star clusters emerge faster

06/05/2026 6336 views 68 likes

Smile delivered to space (artist impression, GIF)

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Smile set to launch on 19 May

23/04/2026 6578 views 49 likes

Close-up of Plato’s cameras

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Plato aces space-like tests

23/04/2026 5832 views 44 likes

Strong gravitational lenses captured by Euclid

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Euclid Space Warps: help spot galaxies bending spacetime

21/04/2026 8386 views 113 likes

Trifid Nebula (Wide Field Camera 3 Image)

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Hubble turns 36 with a dazzling Trifid Nebula portrait

20/04/2026 7807 views 58 likes

Mars Express captures dark ash covering Mars’s Utopia Planitia

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Ash creeps across Mars

15/04/2026 12995 views 93 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 4507 views 52 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 15343 views 146 likes

Saturn (2024 Webb & Hubble images)

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Webb & Hubble capture new views of Saturn

25/03/2026 9479 views 87 likes

Gamma-Cas and its hungry white dwarf companion

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XRISM solves famous star’s 50-year mystery

24/03/2026 5287 views 71 likes

Smile delivered to space (artist impression, GIF)

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T-20 days: Smile to launch on 9 April

20/03/2026 4068 views 40 likes

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS; Nov 2025)

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Hubble unexpectedly catches comet breaking up

18/03/2026 4004 views 57 likes

Smile arrives at Europe's Spaceport

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Smile arrives at Europe’s Spaceport

09/03/2026 3410 views 30 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 11790 views 62 likes

Counting craters in Mars’s ancient highlands

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Counting craters

04/03/2026 3673 views 52 likes

Hubble & Euclid: zoom into Cat's Eye Nebula

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Hubble & Euclid zoom into cosmic eye

03/03/2026 10232 views 86 likes

Smile leaving Saint-Nazaire in France

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Smile sets sail for Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana

20/02/2026 3451 views 37 likes

Uranus (January 2025)

Science & Exploration

Webb maps Uranus's mysterious upper atmosphere

19/02/2026 16671 views 69 likes

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

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Hubble, Euclid & Subaru uncover dark galaxy

18/02/2026 5533 views 29 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 5953 views 43 likes

Overhead perspective of Flaugergues Crater

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Explore Mars’s Flaugergues Crater

04/02/2026 3708 views 82 likes

COSMOS Field MoM-z14 Galaxy (NIRCam pullout)

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Webb gazes further back in time

28/01/2026 3510 views 28 likes

Astrophysical anomalies from Hubble’s archive

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1400 quirky objects found in Hubble's archive

27/01/2026 12909 views 62 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 1858 views 16 likes

Unleashing a solar flare

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Magnetic avalanches power solar flares, finds Solar Orbiter

21/01/2026 9662 views 60 likes

Mars Express sees sandblasted wind sculptures near Eumenides Dorsum

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Sandblasting on Mars

07/01/2026 4560 views 67 likes

Location of Cloud-9

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Cloud-9: a new celestial object found by Hubble

05/01/2026 23942 views 92 likes

Fomalhaut cs1 and cs2 (clean image)

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Hubble sees asteroids colliding around nearby star

18/12/2025 4185 views 26 likes

Voyage 2050 themes

Science & Exploration

Funding boost unlocks future space science programme

10/12/2025 4569 views 22 likes

GRB 250314A Pull-out (NIRCam image)

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Webb identifies earliest supernova to date

09/12/2025 10625 views 29 likes

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