Last Updated: Thursday, March 28, 2013, 20:50
Observation of a vast star-forming cloud, called W3, by ESA`s Herschel space observatory is helping astronomers to understand how massive stars are born.
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 19:10
ESA`s Herschel space observatory, which has spent more than three years studying the Universe, is expected to run out its supply of liquid helium coolant in the coming weeks.
Last Updated: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 12:42
The outer reaches of a `supermassive` black hole, more than two million miles across, or eight times the earth-moon distance, is spinning at nearly the speed of light.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 19:04
ESA`s Herschel space observatory has detected a cool layer in the atmosphere of Alpha Centauri A, the first time this has been seen in a star beyond our own Sun.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 19:09
The winds from massive stars are at least a hundred million times stronger than the solar wind emitted by our own Sun and can significantly shape their surrounding environment.
Last Updated: Friday, February 1, 2013, 09:16
High-performance racing cars are now driving more smoothly than before, thanks to space-ready rubber from ESA spacecraft.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 24, 2013, 10:40
The first test of a pair of Galileo search and rescue satellites - which ware launched in space on 12 October last year - has proved that it is working well.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 15:37
New image from ESA`s Herschel space observatory has revealed multiple arcs around Betelgeuse, the nearest red supergiant star to Earth.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 22, 2013, 12:48
A movie based on images snapped by ESA`s Venus Express shows bright and dark cloud bands wind around the poles of Venus in a beautiful sequence.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 21:17
Astronomers have combined the observing powers of ESA’s Herschel space observatory and the ground-based Keck telescopes and characterized hundreds of previously unseen starburst galaxies.
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 27, 2012, 17:12
ESA’s Mars orbiter has for the first time relayed scientific data, including detailed images of ‘Rocknest3’, from NASA’s Curiosity rover on the Red Planet’s surface.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 24, 2012, 17:04
Astronauts on ESA’s CAVES underground training course, who were sent underground to learn about working in multi-cultural teams under extreme conditions, returned to the surface they were carrying a special type of woodlouse.
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