Mars Express Image of the Rim of the Schiaparelli Crater
This image from ESA’s Mars Express features the small crater embedded in the northwestern rim of the Schiaparelli impact basin. All around is evidence for…
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ESA’s Mars Express Sheds New Light on the Red Planet’s Rare Aurora
Using 10 years of data from Mars Express, scientists have for the first time combined remote sensing observations of localized ultraviolet aurora with in situ…
Cassini Reveals the Diverse Hemisphere of Enceladus
This new Cassini image helps reveal the different features of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Enceladus is a world divided. To the north, the terrain is covered…
Hubble Reveals Some of the Earliest Known Galaxies
Using gravitational lensing, the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed some of the earliest known galaxies – galaxies that formed just 600 million years after the…
Hubble Image of the Week: Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 4639
This newly released Hubble image shows Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 4639. NGC 4639 is a beautiful example of a type of galaxy known as a…
Entranced by a Transit – Cassini Views Dione as it Crosses the Face of Saturn
The Cassini Spacecraft views the moon Dione as it transits Saturn. Saturn’s moon Dione crosses the face of the giant planet in this view, a…
Newly Released Hubble Image of Spiral Galaxy Messier 96
This newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows Messier 96, a spiral galaxy just over 35 million light-years away in the constellation of…
ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory Views Cosmic Cloud Mon R2
This new image from ESA’s Herschel space observatory reveals fierce flashes of light rippling through delicate tendrils of gas in the heart of a large…
Newly Released Hubble Image of Globular Cluster NGC 1783
This newly released Hubble image shows globular cluster NGC 1783, which is about 160,000 light-years from Earth. Shown here in a new image taken with…
Jakobshavn Glacier Sheds a Massive Chunk of Ice
New ESA satellite images show that the fastest moving glacier in the world (the Jakobshavn glacier) shed a massive chunk of ice measuring around 12.5…
Rosetta Views Comet 67P Making Its Closest Approach to the Sun
ESA’s Rosetta Spacecraft views Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko making its closest approach to the Sun, coming within 186 million km of the Sun. In the year that…
Rosetta Spacecraft Views an Outburst from Comet 67P
A new set of images from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft shows a short-lived outburst from comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft…
Hubble Image of Planetary Nebula NGC 6818
This newly released Hubble image shows planetary nebula NGC 6818, which is located 6,000 light-years away from Earth. This colorful bubble is a planetary nebula…
XMM-Newton Views Born-Again Planetary Nebula Abell 78
This newly released image from the XMM-Newton satellite shows Abell 78 – the second born-again planetary nebula discovered. Beneath the vivid hues of this eye-shaped…
CryoSat Satellite Shows Increased Volume of Arctic Sea Ice
New measurements from ESA’s CryoSat Satellite show that the volume of Arctic sea ice increased following the unusually cool summer of 2013, suggesting that ice…
ESA Selects Contractor for JUICE Mission to Jupiter and Its Icy Moons
Airbus Defence & Space in France has been selected as the prime industrial contractor for ESA’s JUICE mission to Jupiter and its icy moons. The…
“Black-Hole-Scope” Provides Insight into Space Directly Surrounding a Supermassive Black Hole
Astronomers used the magnifying effect of the stars to ‘zoom in’ on galaxy PKS 1830-211, revealing very small structures in the distant galaxy. The Integral,…
New ESA Image of the Milky Way and of Its Neighboring Magellanic Clouds
This newly released image from the European Space Agency shows the outline of our Galaxy and of its neighboring Magellanic Clouds. This image, based on…