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Call for Media: Director General’s Annual Press Conference
Press Release N° 26–2019 ESA invites media to a start of year press conference laying out plans for the new budget committed to by Member States at Space19+ and looking ahead...
Promising progress for ExoMars parachutes
A series of ground-based tests designed to check the extraction of the ExoMars 2020 mission’s parachutes from their bags have started successfully with promising results to keep the mission on...
Tromsø, Norway
Image: With Christmas almost here, the red and white of this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image bring a festive feel to this week’s image featuring Tromsø – the largest city in northern Norway.This false-colour image...
Earth from Space: Tromsø
Video: 00:02:34 This week's edition of the Earth from Space programme features a Copernicus Sentinel-2 image over Tromsø – the largest city in northern Norway. See also Tromsø, Norway to download the image.
Luca’s Christmas message
Video: 00:05:18 ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano shares a message with everyone back on Earth as he and his crew prepare to celebrate Christmas on board the International Space Station.Though Beyond is Luca’s second...
Orbiting the Sun together
On 6 February, ESA’s #SolarOrbiter will be launched from the Kennedy Space Center in the USA on a mission to study the Sun up-close.
The Turbulent Life of Two Supermassive Black Holes Caught in a Galaxy Crash
An international team of astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to create the most detailed image yet of the gas surrounding two supermassive black holes in a merging...
Astronomers find wandering massive black holes in dwarf galaxies
Astronomers seeking to learn about the mechanisms that formed massive black holes in the early history of the Universe have gained important new clues with the discovery of 13 such...
SpaceX plans first launch of 2020 in Florida on Monday
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is expected to be launched Monday night from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., carrying the third batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX's Starlink...
Russell Crowe, Ramy Youssef are early Golden Globes winners
Russell Crowe and Ramy Youssef were among the first winners at the Golden Globe Awards gala in Los Angeles on Sunday night.
LIGO detects its second neutron star collision, but gains few clues
HONOLULU — For the second time, a collision between two neutron stars in another galaxy has rattled a gravitational-wave detector on Earth. But this duo is being much more coy than the...
Astronomers Find Wandering Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies
Studies with the VLA indicate that roughly half of the massive black holes in dwarf galaxies are not in the centers of those galaxies. This gives astronomers new insights into...
NASA's Hubble Surveys Gigantic Galaxy
Hubble has photographed a majestic spiral galaxy, UGC 2885, located 232 million light-years away. The galaxy is 2.5 times wider than our Milky Way and contains 10 times as many...
NASA's Great Observatories Help Astronomers Build a 3D Visualization of Exploded Star
Astronomers and visualization specialists have combined the visible, infrared and X-ray vision of NASA's Great Observatories to create a 3D representation of the dynamic Crab Nebula--the tattered remains of an...
SOFIA Reveals New View of Milky Way’s Center
Portal origin URL: SOFIA Reveals New View of Milky Way’s CenterPortal origin nid: 457111Published: Sunday, January 5, 2020 - 15:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: SOFIA reveals a new infrared view of...
Simulated Image Demonstrates the Power of NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope
NASA's upcoming Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), scheduled for launch in the mid-2020s, will have the power to survey the sky 1,000 times faster than the Hubble Space Telescope,...
SpaceX Test-Fires Rocket for 60-Satellite Starlink Launch, the 1st of 2020
SpaceX on Saturday fired up the rocket that will ferry the company's next batch of Starlink satellites into space.
Author Daniel H. Wilson Takes Crichton's 'Andromeda Strain' to Space in 'The Andromeda Evolution'
There's finally a sequel to Michael Crichton's 1969 classic about extraterrestrial life trying to take over humanity from, of all places, Arizona.
Happy Perihelion Day 2020! Earth Is Closest to the Sun Today
Earth is about to have a close encounter of the stellar kind.
Rocket fire reported in Baghdad near U.S. Embassy
At least one rocket landed near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi military sources said.
Watch: Texans' Deshaun Watson gallops for bruising TD run vs. Bills
The Houston Texans looked to be on the wrong end of a blowout before quarterback Deshaun Watson took off for a bruising touchdown run against the Buffalo Bills Sunday in...
The case of the elusive Majorana: The so-called 'angel particle' is still a mystery
A 2017 report of the discovery of a particular kind of Majorana fermion -- the chiral Majorana fermion, referred to as the 'angel particle' -- is likely a false alarm,...
Missiles reported in Baghdad near U.S. embassy
At least one missile landed near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi military sources said.
Australia's Deadly Wildfires in Photos: The View from Space
Australia's deadly wildfires have killed at least 17 people since they began in September 2019 and continued into January 2020. Here's the view from space by NASA satellites.
SpaceX's New Starship Prototype Could Fly in Just 3 Months, Elon Musk Says
SpaceX's newly redesigned prototype of its Mars-colonizing Starship craft could get off the ground for the first time just two or three months from now, company founder and CEO Elon...
Watch How SpaceX's Crew Dragon Will Launch Astronauts Into Space in This New Video
If you're not yet hyped about the upcoming first crewed flight of SpaceX's astronaut taxi, a new video could help get you there.
Chicago Bears signing S Eddie Jackson to record four-year, $58.4M extension
The Chicago Bears reached an agreement with Eddie Jackson to make him the highest-paid safety in the NFL.