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An international team of researchers has discovered that the gas giant, the largest planet in the Solar System, also has austral auroras ( south ) and that, against all odds, they act independently o…
A double decker spacecraft—which can carry TWO orbiters, one belonging to the Japanese Space Agency and another one from the European counterpart is set to explore one of the most mysterious planets …
At the forefront of modern space exploration looms the possibility of manned missions to Mars. From the ambitious schemes of Elon Musk, to NASA’s hopeful plan, to the collaborative endeavor of the ES…
NEW images from the Hubble Telescope show a distant galaxy being DESTROYED from within by a supermassive black hole. Stunning pictures from NASA’s telescope show a galaxy located some 150 million lig…
The 8.5 tonne space station, which been in a decaying orbit since March 2016, is expected to re-enter the atmosphere early this year. Forecasts predict the debris could rain down on several European…
An international team of astronomers from Chile and Germany has managed to capture an image of unprecedented detail of another star — that isn’t the Sun — the red supergiant star Antares. The team ha…
If you woke up this morning feeling a little down for a Friday, that might be because the entire scientific and space watching community is mourning the demise of NASA’s incredible Cassini Saturn o…
NASA’s latest space telescope is so sensitive that it could identify the heat released by a bee on the Moon. You might be thinking that insects are cold-blooded. But a few insects are capable of regu…
We go about our lives here on planet Earth — doing our jobs, cashing paychecks, and raising families — and most of the time we don’t question just how important we are. The jury is still out on wheth…
The finding shows that oxygen can be generated in space without the need for life, and could influence how researchers search for signs of life on exoplanets. In 2015, scientists announced the…
The European Space Agency’s Science Programme Committee has approved the Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission to move into the construction phase. They aim to launch thi…
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are working together on a project (DART) that could one day save our planet from an impending comet or ast…
A 14-minute digital transmission of 3,000 messages beamed toward Polaris, the North Star, by the European Space Agency’s Cebreros deep-space tracking station in Spain. Today’s 14-minute digital…
• Satellite is now just over half-way through its five-year mission and the first batch of data has been released • The one billion stars it has located are still only one per cent of the Milky Way…
The final resting place of the European comet lander Philae is a mystery no more. After nearly two years of searching, the lander's shadowy grave on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has bee…
Jupiter is putting on quite a show — with both sound and light. A new Hubble image shows a stunning light show, capturing an aurora display on the largest planet in our solar system (see above…
