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- Hubble turns 36 with a dazzling Trifid Nebula portrait
on 20 April 2026 at 2:00 pmThe NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope looked at a scene it first captured in 1997 in honour of 36th anniversary: a small portion of a star-forming region about 5000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, known as the Trifid Nebula. The image shows changes over incredibly short timescales and instills a sense of awe and wonder about our ever-changing Universe.
- Hubble turns 36 with a dazzling Trifid Nebula portraiton 20 April 2026 at 2:00 pm
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope looked at a scene it first captured in 1997 in honour of 36th anniversary: a small portion of a star-forming region about 5000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, known as the Trifid Nebula. The image shows changes over incredibly short timescales and instills a sense of awe and wonder about our ever-changing Universe.
- Week in images: 13-17 April 2026on 17 April 2026 at 1:10 pm
Week in images: 13-17 April 2026 Discover our week through the lens
- Earth from Space: Land of rainforestson 17 April 2026 at 8:00 am
Image: This image from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the coast of Gabon in striking colours.
- Three ESA-built satellites on show in Franceon 16 April 2026 at 12:00 pm
Three Earth observation satellites, developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) with European partners, and due to launch later this year, have completed their functional and environmental tests and are ready to travel to the European spaceport in French Guiana. But first, journalists were invited to have one last look.
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- Moon dust preserves record of life’s building blocksby Stuart Clark on 14 April 2026 at 4:57 pm
The Moon may preserve a record of the raw ingredients that helped life begin on Earth. New analysis of lunar samples returned by China’s Chang’e missions has revealed a diverse suite of organic compounds embedded within the soil.
- Dark matter may come in multiple forms, new model suggestsby Stuart Clark on 11 April 2026 at 10:47 am
Astronomers may not need to see the same dark matter signal everywhere in the Universe to confirm its existence. A new theoretical study suggests that dark matter could consist of more than one type of particle, potentially resolving a long-standing observational puzzle.
- Witness to history: Artemis II, lunar exploration and hopeby Stuart Clark on 2 April 2026 at 5:00 pm
ORLANDO, FLORIDA. I’m a space-crazed Canadian who has somehow seen 11 launches across four different rockets since 2009. I’ve witnessed missions with astronauts, interplanetary spacecraft and (inevitably) Starlink, across two continents. But Artemis II took me by surprise yesterday (April 1). The Space Launch System was so bright it was almost painful to look at. The arc of its plume across the sky made noise and noise and NOISE minutes after launch. And the grizzled photographers surrounding me on the press-site lawn at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida were screaming: “TO THE MOON!” And cheering. And yelling the phrase again. It’s literally 16 hours after launch as I type this. I’m in Orlando airport trying to look relaxed, as much as one can on three cups of coffee and five hours of sleep. It feels ridiculous thinking about suitcases and flight arrangements. I’ve been asking myself, “What is normal? Can this be normal?” Fellow Canadian Jeremy Hansen is on his way to the Moon, with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch. I’ve been wanting to see any Moon mission with astronauts for 30 years; now there’s someone up there from my own country, and while
- Artificial Intelligence uncovers more than 100 new worlds in NASA databy Stuart Clark on 25 March 2026 at 12:01 am
A machine learning pipeline developed in the UK has validated over 100 exoplanets in NASA’s TESS data, revealing rare planetary systems and sharpening estimates of how common close orbiting worlds really are.
- XRISM solves gamma-Cas’s 50-year X-ray mysteryby Emily Baldwin-Fiebrich on 24 March 2026 at 10:11 am
Strange X-rays from the naked eye star gamma-Cas have been confirmed to come from matter falling onto a hidden white dwarf companion, resolving a fifty-year astronomical mystery.
