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Week in images: 20-24 October 2025

Friday, 24 October 2025 12:15
First image of nitrogen dioxide from Sentinel-4

Week in images: 20-24 October 2025

Discover our week through the lens

The United States’ goal of completing a crewed moon mission before China has been coined as the new space race, reminiscent of the days of Apollo.

Training in the LUNA facilities

Last year, ESA invited innovators across Europe to join the second Space Resources Challenge, a competition designed to accelerate technologies that will help humankind live and work sustainably on the Moon.

Last week, that challenge culminated in a field test lasting several days at the ESA-DLR LUNA facility in Cologne, Germany, where eight teams demonstrated robotic systems capable of collecting and processing lunar soil, known as regolith. The participating teams came from six countries—Canada, Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg, Poland and the United Kingdom—highlighting the global collaboration driving forward lunar exploration.

Focusing on NGC 3370

Friday, 24 October 2025 07:14
Focusing on NGC 3370 Image: Focusing on NGC 3370
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures the meandering course of the Likouala-aux-Herbes river in the Republic of the Congo. Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures the meandering course of the Likouala-aux-Herbes river in the Republic of the Congo.
London, UK (SPX) Oct 24, 2025
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ESA finalizing ministerial package

Friday, 24 October 2025 01:49
Aschbacher

ESA is putting the final touches on a package of programs worth 22 billion euros for next month’s ministerial conference, despite U.S.

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 24, 2025
Researchers have examined over 400 glass particles collected from the far side of the Moon during the Change-6 mission, identifying 178 impact glass beads to analyze their microstructures and composition. These beads, formed from meteor impacts and subsequent regolith gardening, preserve physical and chemical details of the lunar surface's evolution. Compared to similar samples from Change
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2025
Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered an exoplanet positioned in the habitable zone of its host star, where conditions may allow liquid water to exist on the surface. This newly identified exoplanet is a super-Earth, several times more massive than our own planet, and potentially rocky. The planet, named GJ 251 c, orbits an M-dwarf star only about 18 light-yea
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2025
An international scientific team, including Penn State researchers, has identified a super-Earth exoplanet named GJ 251 c orbiting a nearby dwarf star less than 20 light-years away. The planet is estimated to have nearly four times the mass of Earth and is likely rocky. Suvrath Mahadevan, professor of astronomy at Penn State, explained, "We look for these types of planets because they are
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2025
An international collaboration has successfully charted extensive regions of CO-dark molecular gas within Cygnus X, a vibrant star-forming segment of our Milky Way. Utilizing data from the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope, the team produced unprecedented maps showcasing previously invisible material crucial to star birth. Cold molecular hydrogen gas, the essential component in
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