2026 will clarify Europe’s new priorities for space
Launchers Isar Aerospace is expected to attempt its second two-stage Spectrum vehicle test flight, a key step after…
Astronomers Measure Mass of Free-Floating Exoplanet for First Time
A population of free-floating planets is known from gravitational microlensing surveys. None have a directly measured mass, owing…
Champagne Cluster is Actually Two Galaxy Clusters in Process of Merging, Astronomers Find
Astronomers discovered an enormous galaxy cluster called RM J130558.9+263048.4 on December 31, 2020; the date, combined with the…
Hackers Allegedly Steal Access Tokens, Confidential Documents From European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) suffered a security breach of its science servers, with a hacker group claiming…
ESA confirms data breach – SpaceNews
MILAN — The European Space Agency has confirmed a security breach of unclassified material from science servers following…
Scientists Suddenly Can’t Explain How Stellar Winds Spread the Seeds of Life Throughout the Cosmos
New observations from scientists at Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology have cast doubt on the long-held idea that…
Euclid Focuses on Visual Pair of Galaxies
This new image from ESA’s Euclid space telescope shows two large galaxies: NGC 646 and NGC 646b. They…
Astronomers Spot Largest Protoplanetary Disk Ever Observed around Young Star
The protoplanetary disk around IRAS 23077+6707, a young star located roughly 1,000 light-years away, is unexpectedly chaotic and…
Astronomers Find Direct Evidence for Supermassive Stars in Early Universe
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered chemical fingerprints of primordial stars weighing between 1,000…
Hubble Space Telescope Revisits NGC 4388
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced an outstanding new image of the highly inclined spiral galaxy NGC…
XMM-Newton Offers Incredible X-ray View of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton observatory have captured an X-ray image of 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object to…
Webb Detects Thick Atmosphere on Ultrahot Super-Earth TOI-561b
The new observations with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope suggest that TOI-561b is surrounded by a thick…