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Webb captures commotion from nebula’s stellar jets
This region, rife with stellar objects in different stages of their lives, offers an opportunity to explore how stars shape their surroundings.
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Astronomers Discover Star Snacking on Brown Dwarf Companion
Astronomers have discovered a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf companion, a planet-like object orbiting within the Milky Way galaxy 300 light years away. This discovery reveals a new way that stars can interact with planetary companions and suggests the slow stellar cannibalism could continue for hundreds of thousands or even billions of years.
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Science begins for Smile
This follows a busy in-space commissioning period since the spacecraft launched on 19 May and reached its target orbit for science operations on 20 June.
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Happy New Year on Mars
30 September 2026 marks the start of a new year on Mars. The Red Planet begins a new orbit around our Sun. This is the 39th martian year, with the convention for counting years starting in 1955. There are significant differences between years on Mars and Earth, with a major dust storm occurring in 1956. The poem
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Galaxies in a Cosmic House of Mirrors
A NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month features galaxies in great detail that have been warped and multiplied like they've stepped into a house of mirrors. The brilliant golden galaxies belong to a galaxy cluster called MACS J0454.1-0300, which is immensely distant and has been magnified by gravitational lensing. The real stars of the image are the galaxies that appear warped and stretched, revealing details of the Universe's early history.
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A galaxy spinning out of sync
What could cause a galaxy to be so out of sync?
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BepiColombo's Mercury Arrival Begins - Full Replay
BepiColombo, ESA's mission to Mercury, separates from the rest of the spacecraft on 3 September 2026, marking the start of its arrival sequence. The mission's livestream, broadcast from ESA's European Space Operations Centre, includes live views, expert analysis, and the first signal from the spacecraft after separation.
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Hubble's superbubble scene
The central void is a ‘superbubble’ spanning roughly 210 by 140 light-years.
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Media briefing: BepiColombo's next milestone towards Mercury
The briefing also provided an update on the mission’s status and explored the scientific opportunities that await as BepiColombo prepares to begin operations around Mercury.
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Roman lifts off on a mission to survey the infrared sky
Roman will spend at least five years scanning the infrared sky and is designed to work in space for another five years.
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Google Earth AI introduces planetary prediction engine (PPE)
Google Earth AI introduces the planetary prediction engine (PPE), an experimental research capability that automates geospatial modeling workflows, improving public health, food security, environmental risk, and socioeconomics. PPE autonomously discovers, cleans, trains, and evaluates predictive models from natural-language queries, reducing model building time from weeks to minutes.
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Milky Way's fastest star orbits our supermassive black hole so closely it feels its spin
Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy, the Milky Way, orbiting the black hole at its centre.
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Fly around Schiaparelli Crater with Mars Express
ESA’s Mars Express takes us on another mesmerising flight, this time around one of the biggest craters on Mars.
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Total solar eclipse 2026 (Official ESA broadcast)
We broadcast live from the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre in Spain as a total solar eclipse crossed Europe on 12 August 2026.
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Musification of the 2026 total solar eclipse
[English] Experience a musical simulation of the 12 August 2026 total solar eclipse as seen from the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (Spain).
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Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion
At long last, astronomers have firm evidence that Betelgeuse, one of the most famous stars in the night sky, is not alone.
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New ‘exomoon’ detection challenges cosmic labels
Observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system.
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Astronomers Discover Faintest Planet Ever Imaged From Earth
A team of astronomers has discovered a third planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris, making it the faintest planet ever imaged from Earth. The new planet, Beta Pictoris d, is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b and is among the lightest exoplanets ever imaged from the ground. The discovery was made after more than a decade of searching through archive observations.