Apr 22, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using data ESA’s Gaia mission and NASA’s Near Earth Object Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) have created a map of the outermost...

Apr 19, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacularly detailed image of a part of the spiral galaxy NGC 4603. This Hubble...

Apr 12, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A huge galaxy cluster called Abell 2813 has so much mass that it acts as a gravitational lens, causing light from more distant galaxies to bend around...

Apr 9, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers from the Gaia Gravitational Lenses group have identified 12 quadruply-imaged gravitationally-lensed quasars using machine-learning methods...

Apr 7, 2021 by News Staff

The two newly-discovered pairs of quasars, J0749+2255 and J0841+4825, existed 10 billion years ago and resided in the cores of merging galaxies, according...

Apr 6, 2021 by News Staff

As part of the Clusters Hiding in Plain Sight (CHiPS) survey, astronomers have discovered three new galaxy cluster candidates and confirmed two of them:...

Apr 5, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured an amazing new photo of the face-on spiral galaxy Messier 61. This composite image...

Mar 29, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A small portion of the Veil Nebula, which is part of a supernova remnant called the Cygnus Loop, was featured in previous Hubble photos, but now new processing...

Mar 22, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shot this image of the face-on barred spiral galaxy Arp 28. This Hubble image shows Arp 28, a bright barred spiral...

Mar 19, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observed Saturn, the second largest planet in our Solar System, in 2018, 2019, and 2020, just after...

Mar 19, 2021 by News Staff

In September and October 2018, ESA’s Mars Express orbiter observed a spectacular water ice cloud — named the Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud (AMEC)...

Mar 17, 2021 by News Staff

The 84-page atlas of Mars, currently available in English, Hungarian and Czech, was developed as a part of a public outreach project supported by the Europlanet...

Mar 15, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the 1.8-m Pan-STARRS1 telescope have captured a detailed image of the unusual planetary nebula...

Mar 11, 2021 by News Staff

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have found evidence of volcanic activity reforming the atmosphere of Gliese 1132b, a rocky exoplanet...

Mar 8, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of the star-forming region AFGL 5180. This Hubble image shows AFGL 5180, a stellar...

Mar 5, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the reason for the dimming of a red hypergiant star called VY Canis Majoris. This...

Mar 1, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 2336. This Hubble image shows NGC 2336, a barred...

Feb 26, 2021 by News Staff

New images of NASA’s Perseverance rover, along with its parachute, heat shield and descent stage, were captured by the CaSSIS camera aboard ESA’s Trace...

Feb 22, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the spiral galaxy Messier 64. This Hubble image shows Messier 64,...

Feb 17, 2021 by News Staff

The source of hydrogen chloride (HCl) in the atmosphere of Mars is recent surface volcanism, subsurface magmatic activity, or aerosol chemistry occurring...