Spain faces deep freeze after record snowfall, visible in Sentinel-3 satellite imagery. The heavy snowfall…
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Sentinel-2 captured Madrid under heavy snow after Storm Filomena halted transport and logistics. The snow…
Two white dwarfs merged to form a unique X-ray-bright star, expected to become a neutron…
NGC 613 is a barred spiral galaxy 67 million light-years away in Sculptor. Its bar…
The CaSSIS camera onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captured remnant frost deposits in a…
Studying Hand-Eye Coordination in Space NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins performs the Grasp experiment in the…
A Year of Sunwatching from Space These 366 images of the Sun were made by…
Hubble captured six galaxy mergers that sparked extreme star formation, creating massive clusters that outshine…
As the world leaves behind the strange and challenging year of 2020, we look towards…
Parker Solar Probe Captured Its First Sungrazing Comet, SOHO-4063 When scientists downlinked data from Parker…
NGC 6946, the Fireworks Galaxy, has hosted 10 supernovae in the last century and is…
Space exploration achieved several notable firsts in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic, including commercial human…
The Stingray Nebula is fading rapidly due to the cooling of its central star, SAO…
Elevation can be deceiving in satellite imagery of Mars, even when differences are extreme –…
The magnificent central bar of NGC 2217 (also known as AM 0619-271) shines bright in…
2020 has been another year of progress for the European Space Agency (ESA). The launch…
Solar Orbiter is getting ready for the first of many gravity-assist flybys of Venus on…
A large block of ice has broken off the northern tip of the A-68A iceberg…