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The Latest Breaking News from ESA

Newly spotted asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032

A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of striking Earth in 2032

The Independent UK · Jan 29, 2025

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches next-gen SpainSat NG-1 satellite into orbit (video)

SpaceX launches next generation Spanish communications satellite on Wednesday evening (Jan. 29).

Space · Jan 29, 2025

Mysterious Mars mounds may bolster case for ancient Red Planet ocean

Buttes and mesas in Mars' Chryse Planitia contain clay minerals made from liquid water interacting with the rock nearly 4 billion years ago.

Space · Jan 25, 2025

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Magnetic signals from Earth's tides revealed in unprecedented detail

Scientists have captured faint magnetic signatures resulting from the tidal movement of seawater across the planet — and they might have to wait until 2030 to get another shot at it.

LiveScience · Jan 23, 2025

Hubble Space Telescope reveals richest view of Andromeda galaxy to date (image)

The most detailed panorama of the entire Andromeda galaxy is packed with science that could revolutionize our understanding of how spiral galaxies across the universe form and evolve.

Space · Jan 23, 2025

Europe plans to launch advanced Mars lander in 2035

The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s.

Space · Jan 22, 2025

SMILE! Europe and China move toward 2026 launch of space weather mission

The European Space Agency is set to launch a joint space science mission with China in early 2026 after a long collaboration.

Space · Jan 22, 2025

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'Herculean' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to create

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.

LiveScience · Jan 21, 2025

ESA at 50: five decades of space innovation and cosmic achievements

This year, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European Space Agency. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, ESA has achieved several important milestones in space exploration, space science and Earth observation.

Radio France Internationale · Jan 21, 2025

Hubble Telescope spies newborn stars in famous Orion Nebula (photo)

A recent photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures two protostars called HOPS 150 and HOPS 153, which are located in the stellar nursery of the Orion Nebula.

Space · Jan 20, 2025

How President Trump could change NASA

The new Trump administration could upend NASA's priorities, reshaping the Artemis moon program, climate science funding and the role of commercial space players.

Space · Jan 20, 2025

Europe's new Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket set for 2nd launch in February

Europe is moving towards the second launch of its new Ariane 6 launcher after finding and addressing anomalies following its debut flight.

Space · Jan 17, 2025

Major milestone! India becomes 4th nation to dock satellites in orbit

India successfully docked its two SpaDex satellites in Earth orbit yesterday (Jan. 15), becoming just the fourth country to pull off such a satellite meetup.

Space · Jan 16, 2025

Trump's space policy won't catch Europe off guard, ESA chief says

The head of the European Space Agency says that ESA is ready for any changes in NASA's direction that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump may make.

Space · Jan 16, 2025

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Space · Jan 15, 2025

Hubble Telescope sees rare supernova explosion as a violent 'pale blue dot' (image)

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about 650 million light-years away from Earth.

Space · Jan 15, 2025

Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 years of mapping the Milky Way.

Space · Jan 14, 2025

James Webb Space Telescope discovers one of the earliest 'truly gargantuan' supernovas ever seen

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar monster 20 times the mass of the sun.

Space · Jan 13, 2025

Scientists turn 3 years' worth of solar flares into audible sound (video)

The European Space Agency has released an audio-visual representation of solar activity over the last three years, using data from the Solar Orbiter probe.

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Space · Jan 13, 2025

'Daredevil' white dwarf star could be closest-known object to a weird black hole

The weird outbursts of a distant supermassive black hole may be caused by a death-defying white dwarf walking a cosmic tight rope around it.

LiveScience · Jan 13, 2025

See Mercury's frigid north pole in extraordinary new images from the BepiColombo spacecraft

A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the permanently shadowed craters at Mercury's north pole.

Radio France Internationale · Jan 12, 2025

Cyclone Dikeledi moves away from Mayotte, leaves three dead in Madagascar

Cyclone Dikeledi was moving away from the French territory of Mayotte on Sunday but the archipelago will remain under red alert until Monday evening. The storm however caused flash floods in the neighbouring Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, where at least three people were killed.

Space · Jan 10, 2025

The fastest-spinning 'vampire star' we know of is shrinking. Soon, it will explode

The fastest-spinning white dwarf ever discovered is a shrinking cosmic vampire feasting on a stellar companion. A feeding process is pushing the dead star toward an imminent supernova explosion.

Space · Jan 9, 2025

Mercury looks stunning in images from BepiColombo spacecraft's 6th and final flyby

BepiColombo made its sixth and final flyby of Mercury on Wed (Jan. 8) capturing images of the tiny planet hinting at the mysteries it will soon investigate.

International Business Times · Jan 7, 2025

NASA Eyes SpaceX, Blue Origin To Cut Mars Rock Retrieval Costs

NASA announced Tuesday it may turn to Elon Musk's SpaceX or Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin to help reduce the soaring costs of returning Martian rocks collected by the Perseverance rover to Earth.

Space · Jan 7, 2025

NASA won't decide on Mars Sample Return plan until mid-2026

NASA is considering two ways to get its precious Mars samples back to Earth but won't pick a winner for another 18 months or so.

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