The asteroid will be visible for several nights from different parts of the world. We’ll tell you when and where to look, and what equipment you’ll need to spot it.

This week on The Break Out, a brief review of small unmanned systems as well as space-launch options showcased at ILA Berlin 2026.

There will be no official cosmology results from Euclid DR1 until mid-2027 at the earliest

The mystery of the universe’s “little red dots” is becoming a little clearer thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope.

TAMPA, Fla. — Avanti Communications is moving to close a chapter on the debt-fueled geostationary expansion that once defined the British satellite operator, with plans to sell the youngest payload […]

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Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano will serve as pilot on Artemis III, marking a milestone for Europe’s participation in the program which will bring once again a human on the Moon. NASA has announced the four-member crew assigned to the Artemis III mission, selecting Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano as the mission’s pilot. The selection makes Parmitano […]

NASA’s next mission in its effort to return humans to the moon will be led by an all-male crew. Three of them have extensive experience in space, while the other was a backup on Artemis II.

A spectacular spiral galaxy known as M88 is traveling toward the crowded heart of the Virgo Cluster, where powerful forces are already beginning to reshape its future. A striking new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope highlights Messier 88 (M88), a spiral galaxy that is in the midst of a cosmic journey spanning hundreds [...]

Scientists from the University of Leicester are helping lead the SMILE mission to better understand solar storms and improve space weather forecasting.

Ancient floods once ripped across Mars, carving the massive Shalbatana Vallis channel and reshaping the planet’s surface. New Mars Express images reveal a chaotic landscape of craters, lava, and collapsed terrain that may hold clues to a lost Martian ocean. ESA’s Mars Express mission is highlighting Shalbatana Vallis this month, a striking Martian valley shaped [...]

Astronomers have finally identified the source of unusual X-rays from the bright star gamma-Cas, resolving a decades-long mystery. Astronomers have finally solved a decades-old puzzle surrounding the bright star gamma-Cas, identifying an unseen companion as the source of its unusual X-rays. This hidden object is pulling in material from the visible star, generating powerful high-energy [...]

A newly studied planetary system appears to break the expected order of worlds, revealing an unusual arrangement that current theories struggle to explain. “Many Vile Earthlings Munch Jam Sandwiches Under Newspapers” and “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos” may sound like nonsense, but they are classic memory tricks used to teach the order [...]

This guest post by my colleague in the Department of Physics at Maynooth, Dr Emma Whelan, was written to mark this anniversary and the connection with the eminent Irish astrophysicist Susan McKenna-Lawlor.

The European Space Agency also is kicking in funds for the BEACONSAT, being developed by Austrian startup GATE Space.

We drew the crew capsule using triangles, circles, and curves.

Webb just revealed Uranus’s upper atmosphere in 3D, exposing wild auroras and a planet that is still cooling. Astronomers have produced the first detailed map showing how Uranus’s upper atmosphere is layered from bottom to top. The international team tracked how temperatures and electrically charged particles change with altitude, offering a clearer picture of conditions [...]

The makers of Life Is Strange and Jusant return with a new science fiction adventure that’s been made with the help of the European Space Agency.

This was the first time that the space agency happened to launch a crewed mission to the International Space Station on a Friday the 13th. The Crew-12 mission took flight onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 5:15 a.m. EST (1015 UTC).

Four astronauts rocketed toward the International Space Station on Friday (February 13)

A tiny blue galaxy packed with doomed giant stars hints at a recent, mysterious cosmic collision. The sparkling blue object featured as this ESA Hubble Picture of the Week is a compact dwarf galaxy known as Markarian 178 (Mrk 178). Much smaller than the Milky Way, this galaxy sits about 13 million light-years from Earth [...]

The global PNT ecosystem has been a target of screw-ups. Private companies and government agencies are joining forces to work out a solution Spirent joins ESA: Spirent has joined the European Space Agency in supporting the U.K. government’s Resilient PNT Strategy. The agreement: Spirent will lend its PNT Resiliency Health Check, along with its PNT […]

What looks like a galactic dance is really a cosmic optical illusion—two galaxies, worlds apart, perfectly aligned by chance. At first glance, this scene appears to be a tight galactic partnership. A small, luminous spiral seems to skim the outer edge of a much larger spiral that appears dark and unsettled. The image suggests an [...]

Hubble captures a dazzling stellar nursery where newborn stars light up and carve their way through glowing clouds in a nearby galaxy. This striking image from the Hubble Space Telescope offers a fresh perspective on a faraway region where stars are actively forming. The view was captured alongside a recently released image and focuses on [...]

ESA hopes for a European astronaut to join NASA's Artemis program for a lunar mission. It also signed a letter for a new Arctic Space Center.