A new eruption started at the Anak Krakatoa, or Krakatau, volcano on Rakata Island in…
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Update as of February 15: Additional analysis by, among others, citizen-scientist Bill Gray and colleagues at…
The dwarf galaxy NGC 1705, located 17 million light-years away in the constellation Pictor, is…
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over northwest Lesotho – a small, land-locked country surrounded…
An ice-rich Martian crater, resembling a tree stump, captured by ExoMars TGO, provides insights into…
Solar Orbiter’s recent flythrough of Comet Leonard’s tail provided key data on particles and magnetic…
A-68A: The Epic Journey of a Giant Iceberg In July 2017, a giant iceberg, named…
Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the galaxy trio NGC 7764A, located 425 million…
The James Webb Space Telescope aims to explore fundamental cosmic questions, focusing on our Solar…
The Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai volcano’s eruption in 2022 was the most significant in 30 years, sending ash…
ESA’s Cheops mission discovered that exoplanet WASP-103b, located in the Hercules constellation, has a rugby…
Set to launch in September, the ExoMars mission with the Rosalind Franklin rover completed significant…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) aims to explore a broad spectrum of astronomical phenomena,…
NGC 3318, situated in the constellation Vela and imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, is…
An image captured by the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on August 3, 2020, details the…
ESA’s Plato mission cleared a crucial review, confirming its 26-camera setup for exoplanet exploration. The…
The Kangerlussuaq Glacier is rapidly retreating, as depicted in Sentinel-1 radar images. Accelerated melting,…
ESA plans for 2023 include exciting launches like Vega-C and Ariane 6, the ExoMars mission,…