ESA’s Euclid Mission Receives Final Approval
Designed to help scientists understand why the Universe expanding at an accelerating rate, ESA’s Euclid mission received final approval and will move into the construction…
Designed to help scientists understand why the Universe expanding at an accelerating rate, ESA’s Euclid mission received final approval and will move into the construction…
Located about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, galaxy UGC 5497 is a compact blue dwarf galaxy with fast-burning stars that will…
This new image of spiral galaxy ESO 498-G5 was captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and shows the disc-type bulges, or pseudobulges, that this type…
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of galaxy NGC 891, which is part of a small group of galaxies bound together by gravity in…
To better understand how star formation and black hole activity are linked, scientists are looking back 8 to 12 billion years, a time when star…
As NASA’s Kepler Mission continues to supply important data and continuously monitors stars for transit signals, astronomers from Cornell University focused on 80 M dwarf…
The ESA’s Cryosat mission has been watching the Arctic sea ice with a high degree of precision ever since it was launched in 2010 to…
A new image of 30 Doradus was released by ESA and NASA to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 22nd anniversary. The panoramic image shows the…
The power of the Hubble Space Telescope never ceases to amaze. Pictured above is the most detailed image ever taken of the globular cluster Messier…
European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have provided researchers with new images of the Orion nebula that revealed a host…
Researchers targeted 42 nearby active galaxies and used data from the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton satellite and NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer satellite to show…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have found an intermediate-mass black hole surrounded by a cluster of young, blue stars. This is the first finding…
Scientists are studying the new images from the Planck mission to hopefully gain a better understanding of our galaxy. The images show previously undiscovered islands…
As of 7 a.m. (10:00 GMT), the European Space Agency’s new Vega rocket has successfully launched on Monday, February 13th from Kourou, French Guyana, off…
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has finally returned with some strong evidence of Martian oceans. Using its MARSIS radar, it detected sediments reminiscent of…
Examining astronauts in need of medical help while in space is about to get a lot easier. Researchers at the European Space Agency developed a…
The European Space Agency’s Hershel space telescope has captured new, gorgeous views of the Eagle Nebula, located 6,500 light-years away in the Serpens constellation. The…
As if we needed any reminders, it just illustrates how the Hubble Space Telescope has been one of the most successful scientific endeavors ever undertaken…