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Titan's "prebiotic" environment consists of molecules that could be a precursor to life.

It’s a well-known fact that Earth’s ozone layer protects us from a great deal of the Sun’s ultra-violet radiation. Were it not for this protective barrier around our planet, chances are our surface would be similar...

After a daunting process of elimination, a logo has been chosen for ESA astronaut Tim Peake's Principia mission to the International Space Station in 2015.

The "Potsdam Gravity potato", as this stunning image of terrestrial gravity has become known, can for the first time display gravity variations that change with time. The seasonal fluctuations of the water balance of con...

A massive asteroid almost as wide as Rhode Island and about three to five times larger than the impact thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs slamed into Earth 3.3 Billion Years Ago."We knew it was big, but we didn't...

The Eutelsat-9B/EDRS-A satellite in an Airbus cleanroom after passing crucial readiness tests for space

ESA Top News: The Eutelsat-9B/EDRS-A satellite in an Airbus cleanroom after passing crucial readiness tests for space

Feeling lucky? Events such as the Comet Siding Spring approach by Mars in October only happen about once every eight million years, according to NASA. And after we were treated to spectacular views from the agency’s sp...

This NAVCAM mosaic comprises four individual images taken on 20 November from a distance of 30.8 km from the centre of Comet 67P/C-G. The image resolution is 2.6 m/pixel, so each original 1024 x 1024 pixel frame measured...

It’s been an interesting year for Venus Express. A few months ago, controllers deliberately dipped the spacecraft into the atmosphere of the planet — for science purposes, of course. The daring maneuver was approved ...

NGC 3532 is a bright open cluster located some 1300 light-years away in the constellation of Carina (The Keel of the ship Argo). It is informally known as the Wishing Well Cluster, as it resembles scattered silver coins ...

NASA Commentator Pat Ryan talks with International Space Station Food System Manager Vickie Kloeris about the types of food that are prepared for crews on orbit and the selections available for the Expedition 42 Thanksgi...

Today: Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED) Cable Fraying: Yesterday, the crew reported fraying of the ARED Left Upper Stop Cable which was confirmed by ground team review of downlinked photos....

ESA Science & Technology : The European Space Agency's JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) mission has been given the green light to proceed to the next stage of development. This approval is a milestone for the mission, ...

I am very happy to present the results from the first published paper based on your classifications of the HST-CANDELS Images. Galaxy Zoo: CANDELS combined optical and infrared imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope, wh...

In the latter half of October, huge sunspots were observed on the surface of the Sun. These sunspots appeared at the east limb of the Sun on Oct. 16, and moved to the west as the Sun rotated. They rotated out of view aft...

A team of researchers supported in part by the NASA Astrobiology Program has turned to acupuncture in order to study samples from rough and uneven surfaces, such as rocks and meteorites. Using the technique, scientists a...

To a casual stargazer, most stars look the same. Some may be brighter, others dimmer, but for the most part, they are all variations on the same theme. All stars are so far away that we see them only as pinpoints of ligh...

I'm thankful for a lot of things in life -- though appreciative might be a better word -- but if I had to assess a list of astronomical gifts, then Saturn would be very high on that list. This ridiculously gaudy bauble o...

(Phys.org) --Identifying the sources of high-energy neutrinos--ghostly but potentially information-rich particles believed to be generated by some of the most violent objects in the sky--is near the top of many an astrop...

Thanks to a break in the dusty 'weather' over the giant Hellas Basin at the beginning of this year, ESA's Mars Express was able to look down into the seven kilometre-deep basin and onto the frosty surface of Hellas Chaos...

ESA Space Science: Thanks to a break in the dusty 'weather' over the giant Hellas Basin at the beginning of this year, ESA's Mars Express was able to look down into the seven kilometre-deep basin and onto the frosty surf...