University students conduct experiments with a free-floating platform at the European Space Agency’s Orbital Robotics Laboratory.…
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Annular solar eclipse over Antarctica
A ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse seen from Concordia research station in Antarctica on 17 February 2026. Peaking at 19:47…
NGC 1637 (Hubble WFC3 and Webb NIRCam images)
For the first time, astronomers have used images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to…
France hit by severe flooding
Western France has been experiencing 35 consecutive days of heavy rain, the longest rainy streak since records…
Meet ESA Astronaut Sophie Adenot
Born in France in 1982, Sophie Adenot is an engineer, helicopter test pilot and colonel in…
Smile leaving Saint-Nazaire in France
On 11 February 2026, the Smile spacecraft was loaded into a ship in the Port of…
Annular solar eclipse seen from space
The Moon passed directly between the Sun and Earth on 17 February 2026, creating an annular…
Smile orbit transfer and magnetometer boom deployment (artist impression)
The joint European-Chinese Smile mission will launch this spring from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, on…
The stellar lifecycle in a nearby spiral
Two powerful instruments of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope joined forces to create this scenic…
Earth from Space: Ouarzazate, Morocco
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over south-central Morocco, near the city of Ouarzazate. Zoom in…