esa: RT Human Spaceflight: 🔊Boom! This month the #European Service Module-2 for Orion Spacecraft completed direct-field acoustic testing. The loads and dynamics team confirm #Artemis II D-FAT success, one more test down before launch to the #Moon! 🌓 …

esa: Have we detected the first medium-sized black hole?🤔 Our ESA Gaia spacecraft has captured a huge dark blob, 800 times more massive than our Sun which seems to be squeezed into a surprisingly small volume of space suggesting it could be an inte…

esa: 👇 HUBBLE + ESA Gaia 💪 x.com/hubble_space/s…

In search for exoplanets the James Webb Telescope (JWST) will now get help from a small satellite called MANTIS. 📸 sources: NASA, ESA, Dana Chafetz #space #news #jameswebb #satellite #esa #nasa #spacereporteu

Later today the European Space Agency / JAXA(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) BepiColombo space probe will fly by Mercury as close as 150 miles (230 km) to the planet‘s surface. The goal of the flyby is to decrease the probe‘s speed for a future orbiting of the planet. 📸 image credit: ESA #mercury #esa #jaxa #bepicolombo

Former #astronauts are devastated by the passing of #StocktonRush, the #SETI Institute issued a statment of regret for the passing of #ShahzadaDawood, who was a trustee of the institution. 📸 image credit: #OceanGate

Ariane 5 a marqué à jamais l’aventure spatiale française et européenne. Depuis sa base de Kourou en Guyane, elle a rendu possible les missions les plus emblématiques comme James Webb, Juice, Galileo, Rosetta et tant d’autres ! Une nouvelle histoire va s’écrire avec Ariane 6.

The clearest image ever taken of Phobos, Moon of Mars. Credit: NASA

Photograph from the surface of Asteriod Ryugu, taken by Hyabusa-2's Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout

This is what a very small portion of the Andromeda Galaxy looks like. Yes, almost 2 billion stars. Credit: NASA

We have concluded the object located on a beach near Jurien Bay in Western Australia is most likely debris from an expended third-stage of a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The PSLV is a medium-lift launch vehicle operated by ISRO. [More in comments]

Clearest image ever taken of Mars' Moon Phobos.

Earth seen from the ISS

It's amazing going back to the late 1980s and seeing how dominant Ariane was in the commercial launch market. In a report from 1987 European Space Agency completely writes off the Shuttle as a competitor. It's also crazy how aware Europe was that it needed to develop a reusable system even then.

Large fireball seen burning up over southeastern United States ☄️ Reports say it created sonic booms loud enough to rattle buildings x.com/tonightsmoon/s…

Communications with Voyager 2 have been fully re established. jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-miss…

Over 200 million Americans watched the total solar eclipse in August 2017, but no one had a better view than photographer Jon Carmichael. He spent years plotting how he could capture the total eclipse in a unique way✨ 📷The image was created by shots photographer Jon Carmichael

On this day 11 years ago, Curiosity rover landed on Mars This is real footage from its descent

*STATEMENT* We have determined the flashes of light seen across Melbourne skies overnight were likely the remnants of a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere. [More in comments]

BREAKING: Russia's Luna-25 unmanned spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control. The 800kg Luna-25 was smashed to pieces as it plunged from orbit onto the surface. It was Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years.