European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission has landed its Philae probe on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The signal confirming the successful...
On 12 November 2014, Rosetta’s Philae probe is set to make the first-ever landing on a comet when it touches down on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko....
If there were Martians, they likely would have witnessed thousands of shooting stars from a comet known officially as Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring, says...
On 26 September 2005, NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft received the equivalent of a 200-volt electric shock from Hyperion’s electrostatically charged surface,...
European scientists using the Rosetta Orbiter Sensor for Ion and Neutral Analysis (ROSINA) have found that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the target...
A team of planetary researchers, led by Jason Hofgartner of Cornell University, has announced the discovery of an anomalous, bright geologic object –...
Astronomers using data from ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have completed the largest-ever survey of cosmic dust, spanning 323 nearby galaxies located...
According to an international team of astronomers working with ESA’s Herschel Space Telescope, two gas-rich, actively star-forming galaxies that collided...
Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have captured the first images of a dust belt orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary system.
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European astronomers using ESA’s Planck Space Telescope have detected a 10 million light-years long bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters,...
An international team of scientists using the European Photon Imaging Camera aboard ESA’s X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton has snapped a stunning new...
A team of astrophysicists using ESA’s International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Integral) has reported the first direct detection of radioactive...
New X-Ray observations made with ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Swift space telescopes have provided evidence for the interaction of fierce stellar winds...
Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have discovered huge amounts of water vapor in a cold pre-stellar core in the constellation of Taurus...
