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Perfect placement for Smile’s payload module

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When two become one: engineers get Smile ready for launch

06/03/2025 1391 views 38 likes

Integral: gamma-ray observatory

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Mission accomplished for Integral, ESA’s gamma-ray telescop…

28/02/2025 5356 views 70 likes

Why is Mars red?

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Have we been wrong about why Mars is red?

25/02/2025 16203 views 112 likes

Illustration of the Einstein Probe spacecraft.

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Einstein Probe catches X-ray odd couple

18/02/2025 3434 views 49 likes

Artist impression of brown dwarf Gaia-5b

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Wobbling stars reveal hidden companions in Gaia data

04/02/2025 8162 views 57 likes

HH 30 (MIRI & NIRCam image)

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Webb investigates a dusty and dynamic disc

04/02/2025 8870 views 53 likes

Artist's impression of Plato

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Planet hunter Plato to fly on Ariane 6

29/01/2025 2816 views 31 likes

Artist impression of ESA's Envision mission at Venus

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Signed and sealed: Envision can move towards construction

28/01/2025 1307 views 4 likes

Einstein Probe detects ancient X-ray burst (artist impression)

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Einstein Probe detects puzzling cosmic explosion

23/01/2025 6991 views 59 likes

Hubble’s panoramic view of the Andromeda Galaxy

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Hubble traces hidden history of the Andromeda Galaxy

16/01/2025 26387 views 79 likes

The best Milky Way map, by Gaia (artist impression)

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Last starlight for ground-breaking Gaia

15/01/2025 19905 views 72 likes

Giant black hole gobbling up doomed white dwarf star

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XMM-Newton catches giant black hole’s X-ray oscillations

13/01/2025 6843 views 62 likes

Best images from BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby

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Top three images from BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby

09/01/2025 68924 views 281 likes

BepiColombo's sixth flyby route through Mercury's magnetic environment

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BepiColombo to swing by Mercury for the sixth time

06/01/2025 8317 views 65 likes

NGC 346 (Webb)

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Planet-forming discs lived longer in early Universe

16/12/2024 3932 views 33 likes

Galaxy cluster MACS J1423 (NIRCam image)

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Webb finds primeval star-forming galaxy that is lightweight

11/12/2024 3798 views 49 likes

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XMM-Newton celebrates 25 years of breakthroughs

10/12/2024 3484 views 67 likes

First mid-infrared light observations of Mercury

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BepiColombo reveals Mercury in a new light

09/12/2024 9747 views 101 likes

Spiderweb Protocluster (NIRCam)

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Webb finds surprises in Spiderweb protocluster field

04/12/2024 5706 views 51 likes

Proba-3 satellites form artificial eclipse

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Five space mysteries Proba-3 will help solve

03/12/2024 21438 views 198 likes

Sombrero galaxy (MIRI)

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Sombrero Galaxy dazzles in new Webb image

25/11/2024 12452 views 97 likes

The Sun's surface as seen by Solar Orbiter's PHI instrument

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New full Sun views show sunspots, fields and restless plasm…

20/11/2024 102177 views 127 likes

Descending to a comet

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Philae’s extraordinary comet landing relived

12/11/2024 4786 views 51 likes

Mars Express images combined to produce global Mars in colour

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Happy New Year on Mars

12/11/2024 22494 views 332 likes

SOHO: 25 years of solar imaging

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The solar cycle, a heartbeat of stellar energy

04/11/2024 3583 views 36 likes

Webb and Hubble images overlapping

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Webb and Hubble examine spooky galaxy pair

31/10/2024 4314 views 59 likes

NGC 602 (NIRCam and MIRI image)

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First young brown dwarfs found outside the Milky Way?

23/10/2024 9927 views 99 likes

Hubble's view on symbiotic binary star R Aquarii

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Hubble captures intricacies of R Aquarii

16/10/2024 3687 views 14 likes

Mosaic of Euclid observations in the Southern Sky

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Zoom into the first page of ESA Euclid’s great cosmic atlas

15/10/2024 322184 views 413 likes

Europa Clipper artist’s concept

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Juice and Europa Clipper: Dream team to Jupiter

14/10/2024 7845 views 54 likes

Cryptic terrain in Australe Scopuli on Mars

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Cryptic Mars, a land shaped by ice

09/10/2024 5699 views 81 likes

Mercury’s magnetosphere during BepiColombo’s third flyby (unannotated)

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Mercury’s magnetic landscape mapped in 30 minutes

03/10/2024 4438 views 63 likes

Hubble's view of M87 galaxy

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Hubble sees black hole beam boosting stellar eruptions

26/09/2024 4019 views 17 likes

Galaxy GS-NDG-9422

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Webb finds potential missing link to first stars

25/09/2024 3823 views 68 likes

Artist impression of the supermassive black hole in NGC 4151

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XRISM unveils black hole and supernova remnant surroundings

20/09/2024 4604 views 52 likes

Supermassive black holes in Hubble Ultra Deep Field

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Hubble finds more black holes in the early Universe

17/09/2024 3676 views 44 likes

Rosetta at Comet (landscape)

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Rosetta's legacy: how were you inspired?

10/09/2024 3496 views 30 likes

Juice’s view of the Pacific Ocean in three wavelengths

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Juice confirms that Earth is habitable

10/09/2024 40667 views 100 likes

Cluster satellite reenters Earth's atmosphere

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Goodnight, Cluster: brilliant end to trailblazing mission

09/09/2024 10525 views 53 likes

BepiColombo’s fourth Mercury flyby

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BepiColombo's best images yet highlight fourth Mercury flyby

05/09/2024 41330 views 140 likes

ESA is part of the Big Science Business Forum 2024 event on 1–4 October in Trieste, Italy

Opportunities with ESA at Big Science Business Forum 2024

03/09/2024 907 views 14 likes

BepiColombo Mercury flyby

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Fourth Mercury flyby begins BepiColombo’s new trajectory

02/09/2024 14089 views 66 likes

Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe

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Solar Orbiter shows how solar wind gets a magnetic push

29/08/2024 5637 views 65 likes

Juice JANUS view of the Moon

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First views from Juice’s science camera

23/08/2024 18618 views 109 likes

Juice NavCam view of the Moon

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Juice’s navigation camera gets first taste of space

22/08/2024 3503 views 59 likes

Cluster satellite reentering Earth's atmosphere

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Cluster mission set to end with reentry over South Pacific

22/08/2024 5391 views 45 likes

Juice waves Earth goodbye once again

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Juice rerouted to Venus in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby

21/08/2024 39887 views 110 likes

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Gaia spots possible moons around hundreds of asteroids

08/08/2024 7653 views 63 likes

Caralis Chaos as seen by ESA’s Mars Express

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Take a trip to Mars’s largest lake

07/08/2024 5474 views 82 likes

Comet on 3 August 2014

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Rosetta and beyond: tales of a mission that left a mark

06/08/2024 6309 views 50 likes

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