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Space Science Image of the Week: Hubble images a portion of sky awash with spiral galaxies To source

The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 27 years with two close friends To source

The motion of two million stars is traced five million years into the future using ESA’s Gaia To source

Space Science Image of the Week: This colourful Easter egg-like wrapping traces the pattern of Gaia’s all-sky scanning To source

A Soyuz rocket operated by Arianespace from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou will boost ESA’s upcoming exoplanet satellite into space. To source

Two ancient sites on Mars that hosted an abundance of water in the planet’s early history have been recommended as the final candidates for the landing site of the 2020 ExoMars rover and surface science platform: Oxia Planum and Mawrth Vallis. To source

Aoife van Linden Tol, recipient of the first ESA–Ars Electronica residency, spent three weeks at ESA researching for her Star Storm project To source

Growing fractures, collapsing cliffs, rolling boulders and moving material burying some features on the comet’s surface while exhuming others are among the remarkable changes documented during Rosetta’s mission. To source

Rosetta scientists have made the first compelling link between an outburst of dust and gas and the collapse of a prominent cliff, which also exposed the pristine, icy interior of the comet.   To source

Demanding electric, magnetic and power requirements, harsh radiation, and strict planetary protection rules are some of the critical issues that had to be tackled in order to move ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer – Juice – from the drawing board and into construction. To source

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has completed another set of important science calibration tests before a year of aerobraking gets underway. To source

Space Science Image of the Week: BepiColombo’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter opens its solar wing To source

ESA’s Mars Express has captured images of one of the largest outflow channel networks on the Red Planet. To source