Science

Flying thermometers

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Sea-surface temperature in the southern Atlantic and Indian oceans surrounding Africa and Madagascar. High temperatures are...

Dark Galaxies of the Early Universe Spotted for the First Time

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Dark galaxies are small, gas-rich galaxies in the early Universe that are very inefficient at forming stars.

Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto

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A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reporting the discovery of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf...

The Titanian Seasons Turn, Turn, Turn

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Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show a concentration of high-altitude haze and a vortex materializing at the...

ESA’s Clean Space targets orbital debris and greener environment

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70% of all catalogued objects are in low-Earth orbit (LEO), which extends to 2000 km above the Earth's surface. To...

Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies

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Astronomers have puzzled over why some puny, extremely faint dwarf galaxies spotted in our Milky Way galaxy's...

Flying along the Vela ridge

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Vela C region

Sun Releases X1.1 Class Flare

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This close-up image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows...