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Smile leaving Saint-Nazaire in France

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Smile sets sail for Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana

20/02/2026 1123 views 20 likes

Uranus (January 2025)

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Webb maps Uranus's mysterious upper atmosphere

19/02/2026 6337 views 40 likes

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

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Hubble, Euclid & Subaru uncover dark galaxy

18/02/2026 1832 views 17 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 3363 views 51 likes

εpsilon launch

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

13/02/2026 552 views 5 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 3496 views 33 likes

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Watch live: Crew-12 launch and docking

10/02/2026 17363 views 116 likes

Crew-12 in front of a SpaceX booster

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Crew-12 readies for launch

07/02/2026 1253 views 17 likes

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

05/02/2026 217 views 4 likes

Overhead perspective of Flaugergues Crater

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Explore Mars’s Flaugergues Crater

04/02/2026 2874 views 73 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 6206 views 93 likes

COSMOS Field MoM-z14 Galaxy (NIRCam pullout)

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Webb gazes further back in time

28/01/2026 2425 views 22 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 1354 views 21 likes

Astrophysical anomalies from Hubble’s archive

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1400 quirky objects found in Hubble's archive

27/01/2026 10729 views 57 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 1257 views 16 likes

Unleashing a solar flare

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Magnetic avalanches power solar flares, finds Solar Orbiter

21/01/2026 7017 views 54 likes

Slow-motion drop for ExoMars landing platform

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Legs made for a Mars landing 

21/01/2026 4687 views 39 likes

Sophie Adenot exercising on E4D

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Revolutionising astronaut fitness for deep space missions

16/01/2026 3658 views 63 likes

Mars Express sees sandblasted wind sculptures near Eumenides Dorsum

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Sandblasting on Mars

07/01/2026 3693 views 64 likes

Location of Cloud-9

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Cloud-9: a new celestial object found by Hubble

05/01/2026 20072 views 91 likes

Tree planting for εpsilon

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From roots to rocket

05/01/2026 2196 views 70 likes

Fomalhaut cs1 and cs2 (clean image)

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Hubble sees asteroids colliding around nearby star

18/12/2025 3474 views 25 likes

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20 years in Antarctica

15/12/2025 3408 views 38 likes

Voyage 2050 themes

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Funding boost unlocks future space science programme

10/12/2025 3453 views 22 likes

GRB 250314A Pull-out (NIRCam image)

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Webb identifies earliest supernova to date

09/12/2025 9542 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 23164 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 9666 views 83 likes

30 years of SOHO imaging the Sun (unannotated)

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Sun-watcher SOHO celebrates thirty years

02/12/2025 6146 views 71 likes

BepiColombo approaches Mercury

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Marking one year until BepiColombo reaches Mercury

21/11/2025 9110 views 51 likes

ESA and CAS teams working on the Smile mission

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Smile approved for launch in spring 2026

20/11/2025 4471 views 43 likes

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Argonaut lunar lander family grows

20/11/2025 3426 views 37 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 11556 views 84 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 10812 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 4655 views 77 likes

Engineers at Airbus in Bremen install one of the shield panels on ESA's European Service Module-4

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European Service Module-4 is ready to sail

10/11/2025 1924 views 37 likes

Mealworms for the space menu

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Insects on the space menu

07/11/2025 5988 views 41 likes

ESA Astronaut Reserve receives new training patch

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ESA’s Astronaut Reserve completes second training phase

30/10/2025 844 views 1 likes

Training in the LUNA facilities

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Second Space Resources Challenge: from concept to reality a…

24/10/2025 3449 views 33 likes

Condensation alien

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Condensation defying gravity

23/10/2025 4798 views 48 likes

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ESA astronauts complete helicopter training in preparation …

17/10/2025 1411 views 25 likes

Plato’s spacecraft is complete

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Completed Plato spacecraft is ready for final tests

09/10/2025 7154 views 50 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 9702 views 60 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 624761 views 831 likes

Enceladus jets and shadows

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Cassini proves complex chemistry in Enceladus ocean

01/10/2025 28125 views 92 likes

Edge-on view of our galaxy's great wave

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Gaia discovers our galaxy’s great wave

30/09/2025 19134 views 160 likes

Illustration of moon-forming disc

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Webb studies moon-forming disc around massive planet

29/09/2025 2789 views 48 likes

Sagittarius B2 (NIRCam image)

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Webb explores largest star-forming cloud in our galaxy

24/09/2025 6308 views 57 likes

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XRISM uncovers a mystery in the cosmic winds of change

17/09/2025 3553 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 33794 views 95 likes

Columbus laboratory

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Columbus: 100 000 orbits and counting

12/09/2025 3373 views 46 likes

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