The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has captured images of spiders on Mars. However, the “spiders” aren’t the usual insects you would expect when hearing that word, though they do resemble the spiders we see here on Earth. Instead, the Martian spiders are actually dark spots between 45 meters and one kilometer across, which have …
A new photo from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the nearby irregular galaxy UGC 5829, which is also known as the Spider Galaxy. This Hubble image shows UGC 5829, an irregular galaxy some 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo Minor. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / R. Tully / …
The James Webb space telescope has amassed what the ESA is calling a “treasure trove” of new images of spiral galaxies. While the images themselves are beautiful, Webb’s observations of these 19 galaxies have revealed unknown structures within them, leaving scientists scrambling to learn more. The images were taken using the near- and mid-infrared systems …
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) spacecraft, the Mars Express, has located a Martian water reservoir that is almost two miles deep. The reservoir is made up of water ice, which, if melted, could cover the entire planet in a layer of water 1.5 to 2.7 meters deep, the ESA estimates. This reservoir is the most …
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest telescope in space. As an infrared space observatory, the telescope was designed to peer deep into the early universe, where it can see through vast fields of dust and matter. Since the telescope’s launch in 2021, it has carried on a very storied legacy. Here is …
NASA and the ESA’s James Webb space telescope has captured a captivating view of Uranus and its moons to help ring in the holiday season. The new photos showcase the ringed planet in exquisite detail, including beautiful images of the rings that surround the blue planet. The ice giant is best known because of the …
The European Space Agency hopes to create the most extensive 3D map of our universe yet, and it plans to do so with the Euclid space telescope, an observatory built to capture images of the universe and hunt down proof of dark matter and dark energy. Dubbed the agency’s “dark universe detective,” the Euclid has …
ESA/Swatch Space fans have been marveling at the stunning images beamed to Earth by the James Webb Space Telescope ever since it went into operation last year. The most powerful space telescope ever built is using its near-infrared camera (NIRCam) to peer deeper into space than ever before, with scientists hoping that its discoveries could …