The ESA-NASA Planck spacecraft has returned new remarkable images showing previously undiscovered islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a close-up view of the brightest distant ‘magnified’ galaxy known to date.
Galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623...
Radar data from the Cassini spacecraft have revealed regional variations amongst sand dunes on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
Dune fields are common...
NASA’s Swift spacecraft has detected a gamma-ray burst, called GRB 111209A, which is one of the longest events of this kind ever observed.
The duration...
An international team of astrophysicists has discovered the ruins of a planetary system consisting of the cores of two former giant planets orbiting around...
Voyager 2 has successfully switched to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft, according to a press release from NASA’s...
NASA has selected three proposals as Technology Demonstration Missions to transform space communications, deep space navigation and in-space propulsion...
Scientists using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the coldest class of star-like bodies, with temperatures...
A giant cosmic necklace glows brightly in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image.
The object, aptly named the Necklace Nebula, is a recently discovered...
