On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for decades ...

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...

Experts are not sure why Neptune's auroras can be seen around the planet's "mid-latitudes," and not the north and south poles NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Heidi Hammel (AURA), Henrik Melin (Northumbria ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other. An elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy appear as one celestial body as a ...

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement orbit" around the Sun on Thursday, the European Space Agency said.

In life exploration to find out whether there is life on a distant planet, whether the planet has an atmosphere and its atmospheric composition are important clues, but it is very difficult to ...

Even at Neptune's incredible distance from the sun, astronomers have long suspected it has auroras, though they had never seen them until now. The James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of ...

Eric Philips has been an arctic explorer for much of his life so he knows tough conditions. He's spent days confined to a tent with fellow explorers as they waited out blizzards. When Philips ...

Fram2, the first crewed mission to orbit Earth's poles, is scheduled to launch Monday night from Kennedy Space Center. The crew of four, led by mission commander Chun Wang, will fly aboard a ...

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