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Image: Spying a spiral through a cosmic lens (Webb telescope image) To source

Image: From pebbles to planets To source

Image: Webb visits a star-forming spiral To source

Image: Celebrating Solar Orbiter and the women behind the mission To source

Video: 00:01:40 Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia’s ability to sense the gravitational tug or ‘wobble’ the planet induces on a star. Both the planet and brown dwarf are […]

Today, the European Space Agency (ESA) Director of Science, Carole Mundell, ESA Director of Space Transportation, Toni Tolker-Nielsen, and Arianespace  Chief Commercial Officer, Steven Rutgers, signed the launch agreement to fly ESA’s scientific mission Plato; the formal step took place at the European Space Conference  in Brussels, Belgium. To source

On 28 January 2025, the European Space Agency (ESA) awarded a contract to Thales Alenia Space (TAS) to build the Envision spacecraft. Launching in the 2030s, Envision will be the first mission to investigate Venus from its inner core to its upper atmosphere. It will investigate what made our most Earth-like neighbour turn out so […]

Image: Leo P (NIRCam image) To source

Image: Jetting into space To source

Image: Mars plays hide and seek with Wolf Moon To source

Image: The best Milky Way map, by Gaia (artist impression) To source

Image: The best Milky Way map, by Gaia (artist impression, edge-on) To source

Our understanding of planet formation in the Universe’s early days is challenged by new data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Webb solved a puzzle by proving a controversial finding made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope more than 20 years ago. To source