NASA Discovers First Earth-size Planets

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar…

A ‘Rose’ Made of Galaxies

In celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment in April 2011, astronomers…

Canadian scientists make deep space camera

Scientists from the University of British Columbia have constructed the electronics that take data from a…

SOFIA Observatory Peers Into Heart of Orion Nebula

A new image from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) shows a complex distribution of…

Soyuz VS02 liftoff – Image

Credits: ESA/CNES/ARIANESPACE - Optique Video CSG, 2011

Jean-Yves Le Gall, CEO of Arianespace and Antonio Fabrizi, ESA Director of Launchers – Image

Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2011

Launch vehicle transfer for the PromISSe Mission – Image

Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2011

‘Small is beautiful’: Euronews reports on Proba

ESA's smallest satellite series is the subject of a Euronews video report this week.

Star images helping to save Vatican books

Antique books in the Vatican Library are being digitised to preserve them for future generations using…

JAXA Astronaut Activity Report, October 2011