Nearly all stars belong to gigantic groups known as galaxies. The Sun is one of at least 100…
Like people, stars are born, they grow old and they die. Their birth places are huge, cold clouds…
ESA’s Gaia mission blasted off this morning on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana,…
The Hubble space telescope has captured this amazing image of a giant gas cloud lit up by a…
The largest digital camera ever built for a space mission has recently been completed after many weeks of…
One year ago, ESA’s Herschel space observatory was launched on a mission to explore the infrared Universe. Now…
The Herschel spacecraft shows us images of new stars forming inside the Rosette cloud.
The most powerful infrared space observatory ever built has opened its electronic eyes for the first time and…
Excitement is building around the world as the clock counts down to the launch of two powerful new…
Two of the most ambitious missions ever attempted to unveil the secrets of the darkest, coldest and oldest…
Astronomers around the world are eagerly awaiting the launch of an Ariane 5 rocket carrying two groundbreaking ESA…
In the summer of 2008, two of the most sensitive space observatories ever launched will lift off from…
Are there any small, Earthlike planets orbiting distant stars? What is it like inside giant and dwarf stars?…
Every now and again our Milky Way galaxy is lit up by a huge explosion. Known as a…
Most stars take millions of years to die. When a star like the Sun has burned all of…
The Sun is a star. Like most stars, the Sun is a ball of very hot gas that…
We live in one of the arms of a large spiral galaxy called the Milky Way. The Sun…
