[ad_1] Rocket Lab's early morning launch on Friday (March 24) got delayed by 90 minutes because of an unexpectedly powerful geomagnetic storm that space weather forecasters didn't see coming. Rocket Lab's Electron rocket eventually lifted off without a hitch at 5:15...

[ad_1] heic2303 — Photo Release 23 March 2023 Ever since its launch in 1990, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been an interplanetary weather observer, keeping an eye on the ever-changing atmospheres of the largely gaseous outer planets. And it’s an unblinking...

[ad_1] Hypervelocity stars (HVS) certainly live up to their name, traveling thousands of kilometers per second or a fraction of the speed of light (relativistic speeds). These speed demons are thought to be the result of galactic or black hole mergers, globular...

[ad_1] Watch the replay of the media information session to hear about further transformation measures and ambitious, new ideas for space exploration following ESA's 315th Council, taking place in the freshly renovated ESA HQ Nikis building in Paris.ESA Director...

[ad_1] New research investigates how relativistic jets from a supermassive black hole has been shaping the Teacup Galaxy, giving it its iconic handle.Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are some of the most intense places in the universe, where supermassive black holes are...

[ad_1] Life on Earth has been around for a long time—at least 3.8 billion years. During that time, it evolved significantly. Why has biodiversity here changed so much? A new study proposes a startling idea. Some major diversity changes are linked to supernovae—the...

[ad_1] After five years of intensive refurbishment works, the Headquarters of the European Space Agency has reopened its doors on rue Mario Nikis in Paris, France. As flexible as it is ultra-modern, ‘ESA HQ Mario Nikis’ is the very embodiment of a European...

[ad_1] Launch company Virgin Orbit is returning a "small" team to operations from furlough to prepare for its next launch as it approaches a financing deal, according to media reports.Virgin Orbit, facing cash flow issues, furloughed all but a small number of...

[ad_1] Alpha Centauri is our closest stellar neighbor, a binary star system located just 4.376 light-years away. Despite its proximity, repeated astronomical surveys have failed to find hard evidence of extrasolar planets in this system. Part of the problem is that...

[ad_1] Enabling & Support 21/03/2023 1675 views 50 likes ESA's Gaia mission has been collecting data on millions of space objects like stars and asteroids to build an extensive cosmic record. Now, to take it up a notch, it needs your eyes. Gaia's data is already...