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The galaxy belongs to a new class of objects — extremely luminous infrared galaxies.

A recent acceleration in ice loss in a previously stable region of Antarctica has been detected by ESA’s ice mission.

A remote galaxy shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is studying an elongated crater called “Spirit of St. Louis” and a rock spire called “Lindbergh Mound” within the crater.

Advanced LIGO will now undergo commissioning to ensure instrumentation is ready for its first search this autumn.

A study not only reveals a spiral galaxy devouring a nearby compact dwarf galaxy but also shows evidence of its past galactic snacks in unprecedented detail.

At first glance, the region covered by this latest Mars Express image release appears to be pockmarked with impact craters. But the largest structure among them may hold a rather explosive secret: it could be remains of an ancient supervol…

NASA’s Dawn mission captured a sequence of navigational images of dwarf planet Ceres from a distance of 4,500 miles (7,200 kilometers) on May 16, 2015.

The data provide evidence for one model of how type Ia supernovae occur and means both theories actually may be valid.

As the star at the heart of this nebula made its transition into retirement, it shed its outer layers into space, forming this colorful cloud.

Bearing balls produced by the European Space Tribology Laboratory, tasked with keeping missions moving in space

NASA’s new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission to map global soil moisture and detect whether soils are frozen or thawed has begun science operations.

These galaxies are nearly as wide as our Milky Way Galaxy — about 60,000 light-years — yet harbor only 1 percent as many stars.

Forty years ago this week, a satellite ground station in Spain became the first to be assigned to what would become ESA. Since then, the network – Estrack – has expanded worldwide and today employs cutting-edge technology to link mission controllers with spacecraft orbiting Earth, voyaging deep in our Solar System or anywhere in between.

Scientists have not determined how the boulder seen in Rosetta images came to perch on the rim of a small depression.

The quartet of active galaxies reside in one of the most massive structures ever discovered in the distant universe and is surrounded by a giant nebula of cool dense gas.

On Saturday 16 May, after a long illness, ESA Director of Launchers Antonio Fabrizi passed away in Rome at the age of 67.

When extreme weather comes our way, realtime information from space can help us to decide if closing a bridge is the right thing to do.

A new study reveals that the amount of X-rays from magnetar SGR 1745-2900 is dropping more slowly than other previously observed magnetars, and its surface is hotter than expected.

The study of white dwarf migration in globular cluster 47 Tucanae challenges some of the ideas about how and when a star loses mass near the end of its life.

Ever wonder why stars seem to twinkle? This effect is caused by variations in the density of our atmosphere that cause blurring in light coming from space.

NASA has found that the last section of Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf, which partially collapsed in 2002, is likely to disintegrate before the end of the decade.

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.