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Following the discovery of gravitational waves from the merging of two black holes, ESA’s Integral satellite has revealed no simultaneous gamma rays, just as models predict. To source

Space science image of the week: A super-cold filament of dust contains 800 times as much matter as our Sun To source

Hubble has identified dozens of very massive stars in a stellar cluster, including nine over 100 times more massive than the Sun To source

ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has revealed a surprisingly large region around its host comet devoid of any magnetic field. To source

ESA’s Sun-watching Proba-2 minisatellite watched the Pacific’s partial solar eclipse from up in Earth orbit To source

After weeks of engineering tests, the LISA Pathfinder science team is ready to start work, demonstrating key technologies to observe gravitational waves from space To source

The ExoMars 2016 mission is planned for launch at 09:31 GMT (10:31 CET) on 14 March from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Representatives of traditional and social media are invited to apply for accreditation to attend a day-long event at ESA’s control centre in Darmstadt, Germany. To source

The Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli have been mated together ahead of their launch to Mars next month To source

Final showcase for Astro-H, Japan’s satellite for X-ray astronomy planned for 12 February launch To source

The James Webb Space Telescope is rapidly taking shape, with 12 of the 18 mirror segments now installed To source

ESA and Airbus Defence & Space celebrate the industrial contract for building the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice To source

Two European instruments and four European contributions on two Russian instruments have been selected for the Russian-led science platform that will land on Mars as part of the ESA–Roscosmos ExoMars 2018 mission. To source

LISA Pathfinder, ESA’s technology demonstrator for detecting gravitational-waves, is set for launch on 2 December at 04:15 GMT (05:15 CET) on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Media representatives can follow the launch online and attend the event in ESA’s operations centre, ESOC, in Darmstadt, Germany. To source