New data from the Fermi telescope suggests the precise mechanism that led to the absence of antimatter.

Researchers have found that levels of metals contained in dead galaxies provide key “fingerprints,” making it possible to determine the cause of death.

An asteroid, designated 1999 FN53, will safely pass more than 26 times the distance of Earth to the moon on May 14.

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It started with a simple question that ended with a surprising answer and new technology that is being used in cutting-edge heart surgery and could save millions of euros in hospital bills.

The laboratory find suggests the moon’s ocean is interacting with its rocky seafloor.

Now the spacecraft will begin its first search for new moons or rings that might threaten its passage through the Pluto system.

This new class may harbor either unexpected amounts of dark matter or massive black holes.

NASA laboratory experiments suggest the dark material coating some geological features of Jupiter’s moon Europa is likely sea salt from a subsurface ocean, discolored by exposure to radiation.

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft began hunting for planets outside our solar system on May 12, 2009.

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti’s mission on the International Space Station has been extended until the beginning of June. It was planned to end this week with a return to Earth together with NASA astronaut Terry Virts and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov.

Dawn scientists can now conclude that the intense brightness of these spots is due to the reflection of sunlight by highly reflective material on the surface, possibly ice.

Astronomers have found the best proof yet that the mechanism that triggers core-collapse supernovae is inherently lopsided.

A balloon will launch the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) mission this June.

New video shows early results from a new array of radio antennas. The project is designed to catch things that flash, flare and explode.

NASA has selected 15 proposals, including one from JPL, for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, which aims to turn science fiction into science fact through the development of pioneering technologies.
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The mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are better resolved in a new sequence of images taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on May 3 and 4, 2015.

ESA’s Rosetta mission and Alexander Gerst were star attractions at re:publica 2015 in Berlin

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is sharing her world in space with video tours of her experiments, the space toilet and bathroom as well as giving lessons about gravity

The discovery wouldn’t have been possible without the spacecraft flying incredibly close to the planet in the months before impact.

Though plentiful in and around many galaxies, newborn examples of globular cluster are vanishingly rare and the conditions necessary to create new ones have never been detected until now.

Space Science Image of the Week: Jupiter’s moon Europa is brimming with water – hidden lakes, layers of icy slush, an underground ocean and a fractured crust of ice

After a brief side trip to inspect a Martian valley that filled with sand long ago, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is back on a route toward the next-higher layer of Mount Sharp.

The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, in partnership with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, announced the transition of the final prototype of the Finding Individuals for Disaster and Emergency Response …

The sun dips to a Martian horizon in a blue-tinged sky in images sent home to Earth this week from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover.

After a brief side trip to inspect a Martian valley that filled with sand long ago, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is back on a route toward the next-higher layer of Mount Sharp.

Our week through the lens: 4-8 May 2015

ESA, France’s space agency CNES and the German aerospace centre DLR inaugurated the Airbus A310 ZERO-G refitted for altered gravity by running 12 scientific experiments this week.

The exhibition where art meets science is coming soon to the UN Headquarters in New York City

This gaseous atmosphere of our neighboring galaxy is about 1,000 times more massive than previously estimated and stretches halfway to the Milky Way.

Earth observation image of the week: the glaciers of South Georgia Island in the Atlantic Ocean, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme

In the wreckage of a collapsed textile factory and another building in the Nepalese village of Chautara, four men were rescued, thanks to a NASA technology that was able to find their heartbeats.

NASA’s NuSTAR, has found evidence that a massive star exploded in a lopsided fashion, sending ejected material flying in one direction and the core of the star in the other.

Join us Friday, 8 May, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features an image of South Georgia Island

New research finds that water-rich asteroids similar to those found in our solar system are plentiful in the galaxy.

Scientists think most of the observed activity on Enceladus represents curtain eruptions from the “tiger stripe” fractures, rather than intermittent geysers along them.

As ESA’s Proba-V works quietly on its main task of monitoring vegetation growth across Earth, the minisatellite is also picking up something from a little higher: signals from thousands of aircraft.

NASA’s SMAP and University of Texas scientists are rounding up critical soil information for managing the Lone Star State’s limited water.

New research using data from NASA’s Cassini mission suggests most of the eruptions from Saturn’s moon Enceladus might be diffuse curtains rather than discrete jets.

Do you want to send your art into space on the new Cheops satellite? ESA and its mission partners are inviting children to submit drawings that will be miniaturised and engraved on two plaques that will be put on the satellite. 

This burst of radiation was the most powerful so far this year and already has resulted in a radio blackout.

Live today at 15:00 CEST from Bordeaux, France, connect with us for an ESA hangout on science in altered gravity

Technology image of the week: ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite views the sharp peaks of South Africa’s Drakensberg range

Four men trapped under up to 10 feet of bricks, mud and other debris have been rescued in Nepal thanks to new search-and-rescue technology developed in partnership by the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directora…

NASA’s Dawn mission will host the flagship event for its “I C Ceres” space festival at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena on Saturday, May 9, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: Sentinel-2 mission control team trains for launch

A team discovered an exceptionally luminous galaxy more than 13 billion years in the past; it existed so long ago that it appears to be only 100 million years old.

The ability to peek into the atmospheres of rocky “super-Earths” and observe conditions on their surfaces marks an important milestone toward identifying habitable planets outside the solar system.

NASA’s Mars Exploration Program has begun using systematic precautions to prevent Mars orbiters from flying too close to each other.

Clear evidence now suggests that the heating mechanism depends on regular but intermittent explosive bursts of heat, rather than on continuous gradual heating.

Further observations by astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope revealed that this pulsar is part of only a handful of double neutron star systems.

Space Science Image of the Week: This cool view of the Cygnus region in the Milky Way reveals young stars waiting to be born

Registration is open for a free online course that provides an introduction to monitoring climate change using satellite Earth observation.

NASA and its partners are gathering the best available science and information on the April 25 magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal to assist in relief and humanitarian operations.

Scientists have discovered an exoplanet with Saturn’s mass and Jupiter’s radius orbiting a small, cool star.

This finding may help astronomers understand how the largest black holes were able to grow so rapidly in the early universe.

Our week through the lens: 27 April – 1 May 2015

With four years and 4,105 orbits around the planet, the spacecraft determined Mercury’s surface composition, revealed its geological history, discovered its internal magnetic field is offset from the planet’s center, and verified its polar deposi…

An elongated crater called “Spirit of St. Louis,” with a rock spire in it, dominates a recent scene from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.

The new Industry Portal provides concrete information on ESA’s Business Opportunities, informative material on how to do business with ESA and access to useful educational tools

The Sentinel-1A satellite has given us a clearer picture of the ground deformation caused by the 25 April earthquake in Nepal

New observations demonstrate how the different dusty pillars of this iconic object are distributed in space and reveal many new details, including a previously unseen jet from a young star.

The space telescope has observed a baffling X-ray glow at the heart of the Milky Way that could involve different classes of stellar corpses.

After a mission of nearly 11 years, the spacecraft has run out of fuel and will smash into the planet’s surface at about 3:26 p.m. EDT.

NASA’s NuSTAR has spotted a mysterious glow of high-energy X-rays in the heart of the Milky way that could be the “howls” of dead stars as they feed on stellar companions.

On 25 April, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, claiming over 5000 lives and affecting millions of people. Satellite images are being used to support emergency aid organisations, while geo-scientists are using satellite measurements …

Technology image of the week: Unboxing BepiColombo’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter at ESA’s Test Centre

ESA is set to support Japan’s ‘touch-and-go’ Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, now en route to a little-known asteroid, helping to boost the scientific return from this audacious mission.

Scientists interpreted the latest image data to reveal that the dwarf planet has broad surface markings – some bright, some dark – including a bright area at one pole that may be a polar cap.

Despite young molecular clouds containing far less oxygen than the Sun, theorists still found as much water vapor in the early universe as we see in the Milky Way today.

The team discovered the planets by detecting a wobble of the star HD 7924 as a result of the gravitational pull of the planets orbiting around it.