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DARK SECRETS: European space agency | Rare Historical Photos

This is the largest and most detailed image of our Milky Way — with over 60 million stars and 50 exoplanet systems

The ESA's dark universe detective spacecraft Euclid, has studied the heart of the Milky Way, creating the largest and most detailed photo of this region ever made.

Space

Millions of stars light up largest and most detailed shot of Milky Way’s centre

The glittering image, taken by the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope, heralds a new age of planetary discovery

The Guardian - UK

NASA's Artemis III crew: A test pilot, an Italian, a record-holder and a first-timer

NASA has announced the crew for its upcoming Artemis III mission. This mission will feature a docking demonstration with three spacecraft in Earth's orbit. The crew includes U.S. astronauts Andre Douglas, Frank Rubio, and Randy Bresnik, along with Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano. This mission is planned for next year and…

The Economic Times

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Europe's 1st reusable spacecraft 'Space Rider' clears key hurdles on the road to launch

Space Rider, a novel spacecraft concept from the European Space Agency, is passing key milestones in its tests and qualifications to bring the vehicle to flight readiness.

Space

A house-size asteroid is heading toward Earth tonight: Here's what you need to know

The asteroid is on the European Space Agency's Risk List, but poses no threat to Earth or the moon during the close approach.

Space

NASA is developing the '1st nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft.' What about the Voyager probes?

What is nuclear electric propulsion and how is it different from radioisotope thermoelectric generators?

Space

Europe plans EPIC SpaceX mission to send 4 astronauts to the ISS before its retirement

The European Space Agency is planning to buy a dedicated SpaceX Crew Dragon mission to send its astronauts to the International Space Station to boost their time and experience in space.

Space

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Artemis II: humanity's return to the Moon reaches the launch pad

When European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano commanded the International Space Station in 2019, Christina Koch was his flight engineer. The pair spent six months together in orbit before returning to Earth on the same Soyuz spacecraft. Now Koch is preparing to fly to the Moon, and Parmitano says the…

Radio France Internationale

A giant iceberg twice the size of London is under threat of disappearing

Picture a frozen colossus drifting silently through icy waters, big enough to blanket London twice over. That's iceberg A23a. As per the European Space Agency (ESA), it’s one of the world's largest, now stranded near South Georgia, a stunning sub-Antarctic island famed for its penguins, seals, and jagged peaks. Grounded…

The Times of India

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shines in new image | Space photo of the day for March 2, 2026

The JUICE spacecraft captured its first detailed glimpse of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing a glowing coma and sweeping tail.

Space

3I/ATLAS Latest Update: ESA Scientists Probe Interstellar Comet For Clues To Alien Star Systems

The European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft has captured detailed images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, offering insights into alien star systems.

International Business Times UK

Europe's flagship Ariane 6 rocket launches with 32 satellites for Amazon Leo network

The Ariane 6 programme is backed by 13 nations, all members of the European Space Agency and building the rocket requires the expertise of around 600 subcontractors led by ArianeGroup.

Euronews

Portugal floods force 3,000 evacuations as motorway collapses and interior minister resigns

The latest flooding follows successive storms since late January that have battered central and southern Portugal

The Independent UK

Trippy 'biomass' snap reveals first detailed look at our planet's carbon stores — Earth from space

The first false-color image from ESA's newly operational Biomass satellite shows off a unique perspective of the rainforests, grasslands and wetlands surrounding a winding river in Bolivia.

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Hundreds of new 'anomalies' in Hubble data defy explanation

AI helped researchers probe the Hubble Space Telescope's archive to find strange celestial objects, including some indescribable by science.

Space

Moon landings could contaminate evidence about life's beginnings on Earth. Here's how

Exhaust from lunar landers drifts across the moon and contaminates ultra-cold polar craters that are rich in ancient ice and organic clues, a new study reports.

The Conversation

Proposed new mission will create artificial solar eclipses in space

When a solar storm strikes Earth, it can disrupt technology that’s vital for our daily lives. Solar storms occur when magnetic fields and electrically charged particles collide with the Earth’s magnetic field. This type of event falls into the category known as “space weather”.

Space

How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

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What the first medical evacuation from the International Space Station tells us about healthcare in space

For the first time in 25 years of continuous crewed operations, an astronaut has been medically evacuated from the International Space Station (ISS). The Crew-11 mission ended when a SpaceX Dragon capsule brought the four astronauts of Crew 11 home following a medical incident in early January 2026.

International Business Times UK

Sensitive European Space Agency Data Leaked to the Dark Web by String of Cyberattacks

The European Space Agency has launched an investigation to the cyberattacks that leaked hundreds of gigabytes of information to the dark web

Radio France Internationale

France's Sophie Adenot to spend nine months on ISS after medical evacuation

French astronaut Sophie Adenot’s first mission to the International Space Station is being brought forward and extended to nine months after an unprecedented medical evacuation forced a reshuffle of the station’s crew rota.

The Conversation

How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the only place that harbours life.

Space

The biggest black hole breakthroughs of 2025

2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months.

LiveScience

City-size 'cosmic butterfly' carved into Mars' surface contains traces of ancient water

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure sports a pair of smooth, rocky wings, which were likely "fluidized" by buried Martian ice.

Euronews

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will reach its closest point to Earth this Friday. Here’s what to know.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will reach its closest point to Earth on December 19, giving astronomers a closer look at the mysterious visitor before it leaves our Solar System forever.

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