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Galaxies in a cosmic house of mirrors
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· ESA
This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month features galaxies in great detail that have been warped and multiplied like they’ve stepped into a house of mirrors. The brilliant golden galaxies…
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· ESA
From the ESA Blogs.
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· ESA
On 28 September 2026, ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) successfully completed a gravity assist flyby of Earth. Flight controllers guided the spacecraft close to our home planet to increase its velocity by 3.5…
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· ESA
The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission is set to launch into space on a H3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center at 04:41 JST on 20 October 2026 (20:41 BST / 21:41 CEST on 19 October 2026). MMX will be the first…
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· ESA
Scientists using the European Space Agency's Mars Express, in combination with a state-of-the-art meteorological model of the Red Planet, have found that there may be some very exotic physics behind Mars’s most curious…
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· ESA
Before Rosalind Franklin can explore Mars, it has to get off its lander.
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· ESA
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot has returned to Europe following her 237-day εpsilon mission aboard the International Space Station. A press conference with Sophie and Director of Human and Robotic Exploration Daniel…
Read the full story for Press conference: ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot returns to Europe (opens in a new tab)Rolling onto Mars - testing a rover’s lander
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· ESA
Before Rosalind Franklin can explore Mars, it has to get off its lander.
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· ESA
On 23 September, the European-Chinese Smile mission was declared ready to start revealing how Earth responds to the wind of charged particles from the Sun. This follows a busy in-space commissioning period since the…
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· ESA
Just two weeks after it was launched, the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite returned its first images and measurements from two of its key instruments – a major milestone that confirms the satellite is working well and…
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· ESA
The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has flown through an S-shaped kink known as a ‘switchback’ in the solar wind’s magnetic field. By fingerprinting the elusive particles within the switchback, Solar…
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· ESA
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot returned to Earth with Crew-12 after her nearly eight-month εpsilon mission to the International Space Station, splashing down off the coast of California, USA, at 15:34 GMT/17:34 CEST on 8…
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· ESA
Meet Hera, our very own asteroid detective. Together with two CubeSats – Milani the rock decoder and Juventas the radar visionary – Hera is off on an adventure to explore Didymos, a double asteroid system that is…
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· ESA
ESA’s Themis reusable rocket stage demonstrator successfully completed its second ‘wet dress rehearsal’ at Esrange Space Center in Sweden on 29 September, testing the vehicle and ground procedures under representative…
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· ESA
On 7 October 2026, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and her Crew-12 crewmates will undock from the International Space Station at around 12:05 GMT/14:05 CEST to begin their journey back to Earth.
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· ESA
From the ESA Blogs.
Read the full story for Webb captures commotion from nebula’s stellar jets (opens in a new tab)Welcome home, Sophie Adenot
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· ESA
After 237 days and over 3,700 orbits around Earth aboard the International Space Station, Sophie Adenot is back on Earth!
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· ESA
From the ESA Blogs.
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· Arstechnica · Eric Berger
"We couldn't provide detailed pricing to the CLD suppliers."
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· Arstechnica · Eric Berger
"I can say we’re weeks away from launching on Vulcan."
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