displacement, altered storm tracks, and extreme precipitation far from the Pacific basin. Launched in 2020 under a NASA‑ESA partnership for the Copernicus programme, Sentinel‑6 Michael Freilich surveys global sea level every ten days with...

impression. Researchers think they’ve discovered the most massive pair of black holes yet to be caught in this act. Credit: ESA With the dust explanation ruled out, the team concluded that the void is genuinely empty of stars. Their calculations suggest...

Visitors Alongside scientific work, Expedition 74 performed a suite of upkeep tasks. NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot installed a new sleeping berth inside the Columbus module, expanding crew capacity for the next rotation....

is heated and illuminated by a thriving population of young stars in the LH 95 region of the Large Magellanic Cloud.NASA, ESA, and N. Da Rio (The University of Virginia), G. De Marchi (European Space Agency – ESTEC), and D. Gouliermis (Universitat...

evidence demonstrates that substantial reconfigurations can happen within a decade. The team leveraged magnetic records from ESA’s Swarm and CryoSat missions, together with observations from the CHAMP and Ørsted satellites and a global network of ground...

supplies on long‑duration missions where resupply opportunities are scarce. Jack Hathaway from NASA and Sophie Adenot from ESA are overseeing station logistics, supporting educational outreach and performing upkeep tasks. They are transferring cargo...

corona that is usually drowned out by the Sun’s brilliance. While orbiting observatories such as NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, ESA’s Solar Orbiter and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory monitor the Sun continuously, scientists argue that a natural...

positioned at the center and the calculated positions of Neptune’s rings are overlaid in gray.Credit: Davis et al. 2026; NASA/ESA/CSA JWST data Clues Point to a Catastrophic Capture Event The researchers propose that Triton—originally a Kuiper‑belt...

Space Agency will broadcast live from Spain’s Astrophysical Observatory of Javalambre and host a public event in León. ESA’s science director Carole Mundell emphasized the human dimension of such celestial alignments. “For me, it’s not just a scientific...

offering a new diagnostic for habitability surveys. Image of Venus captured by the Japanese Akatsuki mission. Credit: JAXA ESA’s PLATO Mission Aims to Unveil Hundreds of Venus Analogs The European Space Agency’s upcoming PLATO spacecraft, slated for...

The little red dots could represent galaxies in an evolutionary phase predating the luminous quasar phase. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/ISTA/ETH Zurich/NAOJ Fainter Companion Raises Additional Questions A second source, labeled A2, displays a similarly...

Hubble’s view of Andromeda shows younger, star-forming regions glowing bluer than older areas of the galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA, Benjamin Williams (UWashington), Zhuo Chen (UWashington), L. Clifton Johnson (Northwestern) Future Missions Set to Expand the...

It’s huge.” Comparison of Vega and MoM‑BH‑1 spectra highlights the unusual star‑like features detected by JWST. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, DAWN JWST Archive, HST CALSPEC (Ralph Bohlin, Karl D. Gordon, P.-E Tremblay), JWST Mirage or Miracle Survey...

white dwarf. Within these shells, researchers have identified distinct, compact clumps that resemble tufts of hair or tails. ESA scientists note that these features are dense enough to shield themselves from the intense radiation of the white dwarf,...

high-altitude movements of its atmosphere. An artist’s impression of the European Space Agency’s PLATO spacecraft. Credit: ESA

unit from the host star. Artist’s impression of a young stellar system surrounded by a dusty protoplanetary disc. Credit: ESA Whalen noted that the presence of these discs suggests that the materials for rocky worlds were readily available long before...

instead revealed a 200,000-light-year trail of young blue stars stretching toward the galaxy at upper right. (CREDIT: NASA, ESA, Pieter van Dokkum (Yale); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)) Kinetic Recoil from Asymmetric Mergers The team...

reveal it is a 200,000-light-year-long chain of young blue stars leading back to the galaxy at upper right. Credit: NASA/ESA/Pieter van Dokkum (Yale)/Joseph DePasquale (STScI) Mapping the Mechanics of a Galactic Kick A research team from the University...

lower costs. For decades, planetary exploration has been the exclusive domain of national agencies like NASA and the ESA. The Morning Star program represents a fundamental pivot toward commercial involvement in the solar system. The spacecraft is tasked...

from a red supergiant into a Wolf-Rayet star. Credit: Brian D. Moore, Jeff Hester, Paul Scowen, Reginald Dufour and NASA/ESA The Mechanics of a Cosmic Shell The 25-light-year-wide bubble we see today is not merely a static cloud of debris. It is the...