New catalogues for Herschel legacy archive 20 June 2017 Two new catalogues, based on data from ESA's Herschel Space Observatory, have been released to the scientific community. The point source catalogues are examples of a new type of data product from two of Herschel's instruments, SPIRE and PACS. These catalogues are part of the lasting legacy of the Herschel mission, and will further facilitate data exploitation and drive ongoing research. Read more

New Herschel maps and catalogues reveal stellar nurseries across the Galactic Plane 22 April 2016 ESA's Herschel mission releases today a series of unprecedented maps of star-forming hubs in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. This is accompanied by a set of catalogues listing hundreds of thousands of compact sources that span all phases leading to the birth of stars in our Galaxy. Read more

Herschel and Planck honoured with Space Systems Award 02 September 2015 The Herschel and Planck project teams are this year's recipients of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space Systems Award. Read more

Herschel's hunt for filaments in the Milky Way 28 May 2015 Observations with ESA's Herschel space observatory have revealed that our Galaxy is threaded with filamentary structures on every length scale. From nearby clouds hosting tangles of filaments a few light-years long to gigantic structures stretching hundreds of light-years across the Milky Way's spiral arms, they appear to be truly ubiquitous. Read more

Herschel and Planck find missing clue to galaxy cluster formation 31 March 2015 By combining observations of the distant Universe made with ESA's Herschel and Planck space observatories, cosmologists have discovered what could be the precursors of the vast clusters of galaxies that we see today. Read more

Herschel Status Report - June 2013 08 July 2013 Report for period 3 June to 1 July 2013. On 17 June 2013 Herschel operations were concluded, following the last manoeuvre to deplete the spacecraft's fuel and the final passivation of the spacecraft. Herschel has been switched off and is in its final heliocentric orbit. The mission is now in its post-operations phase. Read more

Herschel Status Report - May 2013 07 June 2013 Report for period 30 April to 2 June 2013. The Herschel mission is now moving into the post-operational phase. The main manoeuvre in a series to boost the spacecraft from its operational orbit around L2 of the Sun-Earth system and into its final heliocentric orbit has been successfully performed, on 13-14 May 2013. Read more

Herschel Status Report - April 2013 06 May 2013 Report for period 6 to 29 April 2013. Herschel's long and successful lifetime of scientific observations has come to an end. On 29 April 2013 the spacecraft ran out of liquid helium coolant required to maintain the operational temperatures for the instruments' detectors. Read more

Planck intermediate results. XXVII. High-redshift infrared galaxy overdensity candidates and lensed sources discovered by Planck and confirmed by Herschel-SPIRE 31 March 2015 Read more

Wind from the black-hole accretion disk driving a molecular outflow in an active galaxy 26 March 2015 Read more

The reversal of the SF-density relation in a massive, X-ray-selected galaxy cluster at z = 1.58: results from Herschel 13 December 2014 Read more