This reignited electron cloud radiating primarily at radio frequencies lies in Abell 1033.

A research group discovered 48 dust-obscured galaxies, and since these galaxies are thought to harbor a rapidly growing black hole in their centers, these results give scientists clues for understanding the evolution of galaxies and supermassive black …

NASA is applying its unique capabilities to the challenge of understanding global sea level rise.

NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland program will study how the oceans are eating away at Greenland’s ice sheet and help scientists predict sea level rise.

Intensive research, aided by NASA observations and analysis, points to an unavoidable future sea level rise of several feet. The question is, how quickly will it happen?

When you fill a sink, the water rises at the same rate to the same height in every corner. That’s not the way it works with our rising seas.

The shimmering colours of the Twin Jet Nebula show off in new Hubble Space Telescope image

Scientists have directly observed an essential part of the process for how magnetic waves in the Sun heat the solar plasma.

The new image highlights the bipolar planetary nebula’s shells and its knots of expanding gas in striking detail.

The closest-yet views of Ceres, delivered by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, show the small world’s features in unprecedented detail, including Ceres’ tall, conical mountain; crater formation features and narrow, braided fractures.

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen testing his spacesuit before launch on 2 September

Last Friday, 21 August, ESA’s billion-star surveyor, Gaia, completed its first year of science observations in its main survey mode.

The spacecraft’s view is now three times as sharp as in its previous mapping orbit, revealing exciting new details of this intriguing dwarf planet.

His findings helped reveal how strongly dark energy interacts with normal matter.

On 20 August 2015 the Director General of ESO, Tim de Zeeuw, and the Director General of ESA, Johann-Dietrich Woerner, signed a cooperation agreement between the two organisations at ESO’s offices in Santiago, Chile. The ESA Director General was accompanied by Álvaro Giménez, Director of Science and Robotic Exploration at ESA, and Fabio Favata, Head of the ESA Programme Coordination Office.

Space Science Image of the Week: ESA’s Herschel space observatory has explored the turbulent depths of a large, dense, and dramatic cosmic cloud known as Mon R2

A new XMM-Newton image shows the powerful remnants of dead stars and their mighty action on the surrounding gas near the Milky Way’s center.

NASA’s head of planetary science says the agency could send a spacecraft to explore Uranus and/or Neptune, as well as their ocean moons.

Our week through the lens: 17-21 August 2015

Satellite images show that the fastest moving glacier in the world shed a chunk of ice measuring around 12.5 sq km this week – one of the most significant calving events on record.

New images show a pockmarked icy landscape of Saturn’s moon.

The evidence is important because it heralds a new form of astronomy using neutrinos, the nearly massless high-energy particles generated in black holes, massive exploding stars, and the energetic cores of galaxies.

An Ariane 5 lifted off tonight from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, and delivered two telecom satellites into their planned orbits.

Relive the highlights of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope mission with a new digital calendar.

In a series of media opportunities Wednesday, Aug. 26, through Friday, Aug. 28, NASA experts will present an up-to-date global outlook on current conditions and future projections of sea level rise.

A pockmarked, icy landscape looms beneath NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in new images of Saturn’s moon Dione taken during the mission’s last close approach to the small, icy world.

This new image of powerful remnants of dead stars and their mighty action on the surrounding gas from ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory reveals some of the most intense processes taking place at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

Curiosity investigated a geological contact zone and rocks that are unexpectedly high in silica and hydrogen content.

The study shows that pebble accretion can produce the observed structure of the solar system as long as the pebbles formed slowly enough that the growing gas giant planets have time to gravitationally interact with one another.

NASA scientists provide real science to debunk wild Internet rumors about an alleged September asteroid impact.

A new NASA report shows land in California’s San Joaquin Valley is sinking faster than ever as Californians continue pumping groundwater in response to the historic drought.

Technology image of the week: what look like Venetian blinds have been crucial to keep Rosetta’s temperature regulated

New modeling shows that the supernova shock wave that helped form the Sun also could be responsible for the spin of our solar system.

ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Soyuz spacecraft commander Sergei Volkov and Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov arrived in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, yesterday. This is their last destination before heading to the International Space Station in th…

Today’s HTV supply launch from Japan to the International Space Station also marks the arrival in orbit of one of ESA’s smallest missions yet – a CubeSat which will test miniaturised technologies for space, set to be followed by many more in coming years.

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: aurora over Concordia research station in Antarctica

Mars enthusiasts can participate in NASA’s journey to Mars by adding their names to a silicon microchip headed to Mars aboard NASA’s InSight Mars lander, scheduled to launch next year.

After taking a low-angle selfie at its latest drilling site, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has departed the area called “Marias Pass,” where it had been working since May.

New dwarf galaxy candidates could mean our sky is more crowded than we thought.

The mission confirms that the Moon’s exosphere is made up of mostly helium, argon, and neon.

Space Science Image of the Week: Mirrors like these will help JWST look back 13.5 billion years to see the first stars and galaxies forming.

This study not only includes the well-known signatures of cities and streets, but also the effects of faint indirectly scattered light.

The newly discovered ring galaxy, dubbed Kathryn’s Wheel, is seven times closer than anything similar found before.

Our week through the lens: 10-14 August 2015

In a complicated mystery of double star systems, merging galaxies, and twin black holes, astronomers are explaining a series of unusual supernovae found beyond the typical confines of their galaxies.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will zip past Saturn’s moon Dione on Monday, Aug. 17 — the final close flyby of this icy satellite during the spacecraft’s long mission.

The Copernicus Emergency Management Service is using radar images from Sentinel-1A to map the devastating flood in Myanmar

ESA’s Rosetta today witnessed Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko making its closest approach to the Sun. The exact moment of perihelion occurred at 02:03 GMT this morning when the comet came within 186 million km of the Sun. 

After uncovering a major calibration error, scientists show that the newly corrected sunspot numbers now provide a homogenous record of solar activity dating back some 400 years.

The new planet, discovered using the Gemini Planet Imager, is a million times fainter than its parent star and shows the strongest methane signature ever detected on an alien world.

Geckos have inspired a technology to make things stick together in space.

When a Dutch company working on soil pollution teamed up with ESA to build a better, bacteria-based air filter for space, they also created the foundation for a new way of keeping iron pipelines from corroding in the ground. 

Today, ESA signed contracts for the development of the Ariane 6 new‑generation launcher, its launch base and the Vega C evolution of the current small launcher.

By studying the lightest supermassive black hole found to date, scientists hope to better understand of such objects of different sizes grow.

The dramatic event on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was so powerful that it even pushed away the incoming solar wind.

A dramatic outburst from Rosetta’s target comet is recorded by several instruments, including the Double Focusing Mass Spectrometer, which uses NASA-built electronics.

Next time you tune in to public radio or the hottest Top 40 radio station, you’ll be using some of the same tools NASA uses to unravel the mysteries of the universe.

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: ESA’s Cebreros deep-space tracking station reflecting environmentally friendly light

With the number of known circumbinary exoplanets now at 10, astronomers can begin to compare different systems and look for trends.

In the approach to perihelion over the past few weeks, Rosetta has been witnessing growing activity from Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, with one dramatic outburst event proving so powerful that it even pushed away the incoming solar wind.

Space science image of the week: Rosetta’s view upon arrival at the comet, on 6 August 2014, and exactly one year later

An expected reduction in atmospheric ozone levels over the western U.S. was offset by natural atmospheric processes and pollutants crossing the Pacific Ocean from China.

Ten years after launch, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed the Red Planet’s diversity and activity, and its work is far from over.

Like legendary superheroes, all space missions have origin stories. NASA’s Europa mission team recently wrote the final chapter of theirs, with their first team meeting.

Digital terrain mapping and mineralogical analysis of the features surrounding the deposit indicate that this one-time lakebed is no older than 3.6 billion years old.

Astronomers studying energy output in the nearby universe have confirmed that the energy produced today is only about half what it was 2 billion years ago.

The fact that scientists can see gravity perform the same in our solar system as it does in a distant star system helps confirm that the gravitational constant truly is universal.

NASA is launching an official Tumblr profile that will give Tumblr users a regular dose of space in a blog-like format through text, photos, videos and more.

Our week through the lens: 3-7 August 2015

The discovery explains the mystery of why many elliptical galaxies in the present-day universe are not ablaze with a higher rate of star birth.

Watch a replay of a Google+ Hangout with Rosetta and Philae experts held to celebrate the comet’s closest approach to the Sun

Low water levels in the Danube river have left ships to queue close to the town of Zimnicea in Romania.

The DSCOVR satellite’s series of test images reveals the fully illuminated “dark side” of the Moon never visible from our planet.

Striking 3-D detail highlights a towering mountain, the brightest spots and other features on dwarf planet Ceres in a new video from NASA’s Dawn mission.

Agricultural fires in North Africa reduce the region’s rainfall during the dry season, according to a NASA study.

A prominent mountain with bright streaks on its steep slopes is especially fascinating to scientists.

ESA’s Rosetta mission today celebrates one year at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, with its closest approach to the Sun now just one week away.

Celebrating Rosetta’s first year at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko with a calendar of NavCam images

How did the very first life forms on Earth get an electrical boost? New laboratory experiments offer clues.

On the three-year anniversary of the Mars landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover, NASA is unveiling two new online tools, inviting the public to help with its journey to Mars.

Scientists are performing laboratory studies to try to decipher what causes the giant storm’s swirl of reddish hues.

A new study has traced some members of the near-Earth object population back to their likely source — the Euphrosyne family of dark asteroids in the outer asteroid belt.

Scientists are performing laboratory studies to try to decipher what causes the giant storm’s swirl of reddish hues.

Europe’s latest weather satellite images Earth today

Astronomers have discovered that some neutron stars may rival black holes in their ability to accelerate powerful jets of material to nearly the speed of light.

As part of a galactic archaeology study, astronomers discovered that the spatial distribution of the young stars around M81, M82, and NGC 3077 follows very closely that of their distribution of neutral hydrogen.

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: ESA’s New Norcia deep-space tracking station illuminated against the Australian night sky

Astronomers may have found the source of a particularly hard-to-spot group of near-Earth asteroids, thanks to a once-dormant NASA space telescope.

Space science image of the week: Explore the Atlantis Chaos region of Mars in images and a new fly-through movie

The new composite image of the Lagoon Nebula’s central region shows churning funnels of gas and energetic star formation.

Scientists have found that about 30 percent of the Milky Way’s stars have traveled a long way from the orbits in which they were born.

Teachers and students from rural schools in South Africa and Italy are benefiting from an ESA-supported project that enriches education through satcoms.

Two decades into the study of planets that orbit other stars, scientists recall that the discovery of the first such planet seemed almost unbelievable at the time.

New NASA video shows a rotating, two-lobed asteroid that recently flew past Earth.

Mysterious objects called brown dwarfs are sometimes called “failed stars.”

Our week through the lens: 27-31 July 2015

The European Space Agency’s Philae lander has discovered complex organic molecules on the surface of Comet 67P.

The microlensing technique can find more distant and colder planets in long-period orbits that other methods cannot detect.

Registration open for ESTEC Open Day on Sunday 4 October: your chance to visit ESA’s technical heart

Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2 image of lakes on the southern side of the Italian Alps, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme