The stellar explosion, SN 1987A, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, was one of the brightest supernovae in more than 400 years. Credit: ESO Discovery…
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Orion spacecraft with the NASA “worm” logo and the ESA logo. Credit: NASA NASA is headed back to the Moon as part of the Artemis…
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket launches to the International Space Station on October 2, 2020, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia. The rocket…
Cross-section snapshots of 3D simulations of giant impacts using 30 to 100 million particles, coloured by their material or their internal energy, related to their…
The mass spectrometer ORIGIN. Credit: © University of Bern, Image: Andreas Riedo Researchers at the University of Bern have developed the highly sensitive ORIGIN instrument,…
Black hole accretion disk and torus. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Matter swirling around supermassive black holes creates bursts of light that “echo” in nearby dust clouds. These…
Help NASA find exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, through a newly launched website called Planet Patrol. This citizen science platform allows members of the…
The converging lines represent the paths of the comets. The ecliptic plane is shown in yellow and the empty ecliptic is shown in blue. The…
The path that ExoMars 2022 will follow to reach the Red Planet is set. The trajectory that will take the spacecraft from Earth to Mars…
Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy is at work inside the Kibo laboratory module from JAXA. Credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency The Expedition 63 crew continues…
Artist’s impression of the web of the supermassive black hole. With the help of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found six galaxies lying…
Cheops is ESA’s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite. It is the first mission dedicated to studying bright, nearby stars that are already known to host exoplanets, in…
Planetary nebula NGC 2440’s central star, HD62166, is possibly the hottest known white dwarf star discovered yet. White dwarfs exhibit puzzling quantum phenomena: As they…
The International Space Station is pictured orbiting Earth in October of 2018. Credit: NASA Late Monday night, the Expedition 63 crew was awakened by flight…
Composite of images taken by Japanese spacecraft Akatsuki of Venus. Credit: JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / Damia Bouic Study shows the destabilizing effect of…
Artist’s impression of the collision of two protoplanets. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook International research team solves theory of how diamonds formed inside protoplanets. Geoscientists from Goethe…
Artist’s impression of Mars Express. The background is based on an actual image of Mars taken by the spacecraft’s high resolution stereo camera. Credit: Spacecraft…
Artist’s depiction of a magnetar. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada A University of Colorado at Boulder astrophysicist is searching the light coming from a distant, and extremely…
Visible both in the inset photograph on the upper left and near the center of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover in this illustration is the palm-size…
Digital Twin Earth will help visualize, monitor, and forecast natural and human activity on the planet. The model will be able to monitor the health…