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Philae's extraordinary comet landing relived (2024)(esa.int)

18 points by 1970-01-01 4 months ago | 2 comments

All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)(esa.int)

429 points by cybermango 6 months ago | 243 comments

ESA article on the toxicity of lunar dust, which caused Apollo moonwalkers 'lunar hay fever' symptoms and smelled like spent gunpowder.

World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite(esa.int)

180 points by giuliomagnifico 7 months ago | 71 comments

Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images(esa.int)

639 points by saubeidl 9 months ago | 91 comments

ESA article announcing the first images returned by Europe's next-generation Meteosat Third Generation weather satellite.

Earth from Space: The Fate of a Giant(esa.int)

21 points by geox 9 months ago | 2 comments

ESA Sentinel-1D delivers first high-resolution images(esa.int)

115 points by giuliomagnifico 11 months ago | 32 comments

Insects on the Space Menu(esa.int)

18 points by ohjeez 11 months ago | 5 comments

ESA’s Moonlight programme: Pioneering the path for lunar exploration (2024)(esa.int)

80 points by nullhole 1 year ago | 19 comments

"The models were right": astronomers find 'missing' matter(esa.int)

7 points by geox 1 year ago | 1 comments

Proba-3's first artificial solar eclipse(esa.int)

20 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 7 comments

Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun's poles(esa.int)

258 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 28 comments

A visual feast of galaxies, from infrared to X-ray(esa.int)

70 points by giuliomagnifico 1 year ago | 2 comments

Solar Orbiter's widest high-res view of the Sun(esa.int)

39 points by belter 1 year ago | 3 comments

Space Debris: Is It a Crisis?(esa.int)

55 points by defrost 1 year ago | 55 comments

Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields(esa.int)

99 points by layer8 1 year ago | 17 comments

Pierogi in Space(esa.int)

124 points by stared 1 year ago | 35 comments

Have we been wrong about why Mars is red?(esa.int)

31 points by rntn 1 year ago | 2 comments

Einstein Probe detects puzzling cosmic explosion(esa.int)

4 points by rntn 1 year ago | 0 comments

Sky-scanning complete for Gaia(esa.int)

169 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 60 comments

Mercury's shadowy North Pole revealed by M-CAM 1(esa.int)

70 points by divbzero 1 year ago | 15 comments

Juice rerouted to Venus in first lunar-Earth flyby(esa.int)

81 points by janpot 2 years ago | 40 comments

Double trouble: ESA's Gaia hit by micrometeoroid and solar storm(esa.int)

141 points by gnabgib 2 years ago | 16 comments

Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space(esa.int)

290 points by gostsamo 2 years ago | 285 comments

Monitoring marine litter from space(esa.int)

216 points by bitschubser_ 2 years ago | 87 comments

First detection of negative ions on the Moon(esa.int)

31 points by benkan 2 years ago | 4 comments

Ariane 6 inaugural launch targeted for 9 July(esa.int)

40 points by belter 2 years ago | 17 comments

Operations begin to de-ice Euclid’s vision(esa.int)

77 points by N19PEDL2 2 years ago | 37 comments

Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate(esa.int)

633 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 327 comments

ESA article reporting that Webb observations confirm Hubble's measurements of the Universe's expansion rate, deepening the Hubble tension.

Reentry of International Space Station Batteries into Earth's Atmosphere(esa.int)

166 points by geox 2 years ago | 127 comments

Capturing the ripples of spacetime: LISA gets go-ahead(esa.int)

135 points by ssl232 2 years ago | 26 comments

20 years of Mars Express(esa.int)

71 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 16 comments

ESA’s new Ariane 6 rocket passed a major full-scale rehearsal(esa.int)

156 points by sbuttgereit 2 years ago | 155 comments

Euclid's First Images(esa.int)

396 points by perihelions 3 years ago | 97 comments

ESA article presenting the first full-colour images from the Euclid space telescope, including the Horsehead Nebula, a spiral galaxy, and the Perseus galaxy cluster.

Ozone hole goes large again(esa.int)

209 points by geox 3 years ago | 84 comments

Antarctic Ice Shelf Demise(esa.int)

60 points by gmays 3 years ago | 13 comments

Small-scale magnetism leads to large-scale solar atmosphere(esa.int)

48 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 2 comments

Guide stars found as Euclid's navigation fine tuned(esa.int)

62 points by raattgift 3 years ago | 22 comments

Full ignition for ESA’s reusable rocket engine(esa.int)

204 points by ZacnyLos 3 years ago | 163 comments

Ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica hits new record(esa.int)

166 points by belter 3 years ago | 156 comments

Juice’s RIME antenna successfully unjammed(esa.int)

198 points by zdw 3 years ago | 64 comments

ESA – Space Debris by the Numbers(esa.int)

54 points by mkl95 3 years ago | 17 comments

ESA’s Juice lifts off on quest to discover secrets of Jupiter’s icy moons(esa.int)

269 points by Tevias 3 years ago | 62 comments

Juice launch to Jupiter – Live [video](esa.int)

167 points by csantini 3 years ago | 27 comments

ESA – Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer: Live Launch(esa.int)

172 points by laktak 3 years ago | 66 comments