ESA – ESA Strategy 2040

The European Space Agency has published its strategy approaching challenges and opportunities up to 2040. Strategy…

Astronaut explains what a long space mission did to his body : NPR

Ground personnel help U.S. astronaut Jack Fischer after he landed in a remote area outside Dzhezkazgan,…

New ‘baby pictures’ of the cosmos show the universe in its infancy : NPR

A new half-sky image from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope combines three wavelengths of light to show…

NASA Astronauts Don’t Receive Overtime Pay for Space Mission But Get $5 a Day

If your eight-day work trip was unexpectedly extended by nine months, you might expect to rack…

The ESA’s Euclid Space Telescope Gives Glimpses of its Deep Field

The ESA’s Euclid Space Telescope has already wowed us with some fantastic images. After launching in…

Would We Know if a Supernova Was About to Hit the Earth?

We know that regular supernovae pose no existential threat to life on Earth in the near-term.…

Astronaut Sunita Williams' ancestral village celebrates her return to Earth

Residents of Sunita William’s ancestral village and her Indian relatives celebrate her safe landing. She and…

Dark energy is not what we thought – and that may transform the cosmos

Star trails over the Mayall Telescope in Arizona, which houses the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Luke…

Astronomers Get ‘More Than a Hint’ That Dark Energy Isn’t What They Thought

An international team of astronomers on Wednesday unveiled the most compelling evidence to date that dark…

Astronomers Used Meteorites to Create a Geological Map of the Main Asteroid Belt

More than one million asteroids larger than 1 km exist in the main asteroid belt (MAB)…