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ESA and ClearSpace announce PRELUDE in-orbit servicing and debris removal mission

January 14, 2026

MILAN — The European Space Agency and Luxembourg’s ClearSpace announced Jan. 12 a new collaboration on an in-orbit…

COSMOS-74706: an unsharp mask overlaid onto the F200W, F277W, and F356W filter composition; the white lines are logarithmic spirals fitted to points along the arm structures and a line segment fitted to the approximately North to South aligned bar structure. Image credit: Daniel Ivanov.

January 13, 2026

Using the high resolution images from the NIRCam (Near-InfraRed Camera) instrument onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope,…

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Astronomers Measure Mass of Free-Floating Exoplanet for First Time

January 7, 2026

A population of free-floating planets is known from gravitational microlensing surveys. None have a directly measured mass, owing…

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$The Champagne Cluster appears here as a large collection of brilliant white lights, each a distinct galaxy. A neon purple cloud stretches across the cluster’s crowded core. Many of the hundred-plus galaxies in the cluster are in two clumps of galaxies towards the top and bottom of center. Some are encircled by a faint glowing haze, while a few foreground stars gleam with diffraction spikes. Some of the smaller galaxies are tinted blue, orange, or red, and some appear more oblong than round, suggesting spiral shapes viewed edge-on. The neon purple cloud sits at the heart of the image, surrounding the most densely-packed part of the cluster. This cloud, which spreads vertically across the cluster, is multimillion-degree gas observed by Chandra. The two clumps of observable galaxies, and the spread of superheated gas, reveal that the Champagne Cluster is in fact two clusters in the process of colliding. Image credit: NASA / CXC / UCDavis / Bouhrik et al. / Legacy Survey / DECaLS / BASS / MzLS / SAO / P. Edmonds / L. Frattare.$

January 3, 2026

Astronomers discovered an enormous galaxy cluster called RM J130558.9+263048.4 on December 31, 2020; the date, combined with the…

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Something Weird Is Happening to Earth’s Magnetic Field

January 3, 2026

The European Space Agency (ESA) suffered a security breach of its science servers, with a hacker group claiming…

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December 30, 2025

MILAN — The European Space Agency has confirmed a security breach of unclassified material from science servers following…

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December 25, 2025

New observations from scientists at Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology have cast doubt on the long-held idea that…

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This Hubble image shows the debris ring and dust clouds cs1 and cs2 around Fomalhaut. Image credit: NASA / ESA / P. Kalas, UC Berkeley / J. DePasquale, STScI.

December 21, 2025

Fomalhaut — the 18th brightest star visible in night sky — is orbited by a compact source, Fomalhaut…

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December 20, 2025

Disabled engineer becomes first wheelchair user to fly to space The JournalFirst wheelchair-using astronaut touches down after ride to…

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Astronomers Find Direct Evidence for Supermassive Stars in Early Universe

December 16, 2025

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered chemical fingerprints of primordial stars weighing between 1,000…

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This Hubble image shows NGC 4388, a spiral galaxy some 59 million light-years in the constellation of Virgo. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / S. Veilleux / J. Wang / J. Greene.

December 15, 2025

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced an outstanding new image of the highly inclined spiral galaxy NGC…

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This XMM-Newton image shows an X-ray view of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. At the center of the image, a bright red spot stands out against a dark background, like a fiery beacon. Starting from this core, faint gradients of purple and blue spread outward, creating a slightly rotated rectangular frame, divided by a thin horizontal line, the detector gap. The red color shows low-energy X-rays, blue marks empty space with very few X-rays. Image credit: ESA / XMM-Newton / C. Lisse / S. Cabot / XMM ISO Team.

December 13, 2025

Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton observatory have captured an X-ray image of 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object to…

ESA and ClearSpace announce PRELUDE in-orbit servicing and debris removal mission

Barred Spiral Galaxy Spotted Just Two Billion Years after Big Bang

Astronomers Measure Mass of Free-Floating Exoplanet for First Time

Champagne Cluster is Actually Two Galaxy Clusters in Process of Merging, Astronomers Find

Hackers Allegedly Steal Access Tokens, Confidential Documents From European Space Agency

ESA confirms data breach – SpaceNews

Scientists Suddenly Can’t Explain How Stellar Winds Spread the Seeds of Life Throughout the Cosmos

Hubble Captures Collision of Two Planetesimals around Fomalhaut

Disabled engineer becomes first wheelchair user to fly to space – The Journal

Astronomers Find Direct Evidence for Supermassive Stars in Early Universe

Hubble Space Telescope Revisits NGC 4388

XMM-Newton Offers Incredible X-ray View of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS