Circled is the plane flying over Mainz, Germany, April 26, 2017. (Thomas Pesquet/International Space Station) From its orbit of more than , the International Space Station (ISS) spotted a jumbo jet cruising over Europe on Wednesday. ,who is on a six-month mission aboard the ISS shows the four-engine aircraft over Mainz, Germany. You can see the plane in the circle weather.com hasadded tohis photograph above. Trailing behind the plane are its contrails which show upeasily in contrast to the waters...

The image above shows the gravitationally lensed iPTF16geu Type Ia supernova. (W.M. Keck Observatory) For the first time, a team of researchers has witnessed the cosmic magnification of a Type Ia supernova, which could allow them to calculate the rate at which the universe is expanding. and astronomers frequently use them to measure how fast the universe is spreading, as well as its amount of dark energy, according to a release on the discovery. In a recent study, the scientists...

The amount of space junk orbiting the Earth is growing and could spell disaster for spacecraft. ...