The Herschel Space Observatory, ranked as the world's largest infrared space telescope since it was launched into orbit in 2009, took its final bow yesterday, after having depleted the supply of ...

On May 14, 2009, the European Space Agency launched the infrared astronomical observatory Herschel into space. For very nearly four years, this fantastic telescope observed the Universe and returned ...

After nearly four years mapping the "hidden universe," the largest infrared telescope ever launched into space has reached the end of its life, European Space Agency officials say. The $1.4 billion ...

A pioneering mission, Herschel is the first to cover the entire wavelength range from far-infrared to submillimeter, making it possible to study previously invisible cool regions of gas and dust in ...

On Monday, April 29, the Herschel Space Observatory exhausted its supply of ultra-cold liquid helium coolant, required to do its most sensitive observations. A ten-year period in which five telescopes ...

Europe's flagship space telescope has stopped working. The billion-euro Herschel observatory has run out of the liquid helium needed to keep its instruments and detectors at their ultra-low ...

The largest infrared telescope ever launched into space is almost at the end of its cosmic life, European Space Agency officials say. After nearly four years mapping the cosmos, ESA's prolific ...

ESA’s Herschel space observatory is expected to exhaust its supply of liquid helium coolant in the coming weeks after spending more than three exciting years studying the cool universe. Herschel was ...

Europe’s Herschel-Planck science mission, the most expensive and complicated satellite program ever undertaken in Europe, is more than 20 percent over budget and months behind schedule because of ...

Europe's billion-euro Herschel Space Telescope is fully operational again after engineers brought its damaged instrument back online. The observatory's HiFi spectrometer was turned off just three ...

Europe's flagship space telescope has stopped working. The billion-euro Herschel observatory has run out of the liquid helium needed to keep its instruments and detectors at their ultra-low ...

Herschel pictured the "cold cosmos" - places where gas and dust are coming together to form stars. Here, in the Rosette Nebula, in the constellation of Monoceros, a mass of new stars (bright spots) ...