Astronomers using Europe’s Herschel Space Observatory are asking the public to help find holes in the dust clouds that are threaded through our galaxy. By looking at the images from Herschel, combined ...

Submillimetre Telescope, FIRST, will be re-named the ‘Herschel Space Observatory’. This was announced this morning by ESA’s Director of Science, Roger Bonnet, during the opening of the FIRST ...

New observations from the infrared Herschel Space Observatory reveal that an exploding star expelled the equivalent of between 160,000 and 230,000 Earth masses of fresh dust. This enormous quantity ...

The cold dust that builds blazing stars is revealed in new images that combine observations from the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency-led mission with important NASA contributions, ...

"We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those missing pieces were going to be." A secret population of hidden galaxies ...

See the Orion Nebula through the eyes of the ESA's Herschel Space Telescope, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech What Jimmy Kimmel ...

(CNN) -- Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the first asteroid belt seen outside of our solar system and unveiled some cosmic surprises along the way. The space observatory ...