<p></p> <p>For a planet, this would be like a day at the spa. After years of growing old, a massive planet could, in theory, brighten up with a radiant, youthful glow.
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>With a mandate from the UN, ESA and other space agencies from around the world are about to establish a high-level group to help coordinate global response should
<p>Nearly a decade ago, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory caught signs of what appeared to be a black hole snacking on gas at the middle of the nearby Sculptor galaxy. Now,
<p>Astronomers have found some of the youngest stars ever seen, thanks to the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributions.</p> <p>Observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope
<p style="text-align:center" class="small"><br /> This composite of the giant barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 combines visible light images from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope with far-ultraviolet (1,528 angstroms) data
<p>he heat-seeking capabilities of the international Cassini spacecraft and two ground-based telescopes have provided the first look at the aftermath of Saturn’s ‘Great Springtime Storm’. Concealed from the naked eye,
<p>Astronomers searching for Earthlike worlds need look no further than Alpha Centauri, the stellar system next door it seems.</p> <p style="text-align:center" class="small"><br /> The video above shows a fly-through of the bright
<p>ESA assembled a top engineering team then challenged them to devise a way for rovers to navigate on alien planets. Six months later, a fully autonomous vehicle was charting its
<p>While some galaxies are rotund and others are slender disks like our spiral Milky Way, new observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope show that the Sombrero galaxy is both. The
<p>Two of ESA’s space observatories have combined to create a multi-wavelength view of violent events taking place within the giant galaxy of Centaurus A. The new observations strengthen the view