Colourful Naukluft
Earth observation image of the week: A Sentinel-2A image of Namibia To source
Satellites 11 and 12 join working Galileo fleet
Europe’s latest navigation satellites, launched last December, have been officially commissioned into the Galileo constellation, and are now broadcasting working navigation signals. To source
Weird Tailless Comet, First Ever Seen, Is a Building Block of Earth
A new kind of comet that is nearly tailless has been discovered — and the surprises don’t stop there. The new comet recently returned from the edge of the solar system but may have originated much closer to the sun, scientists say. In fact, it may even reveal clues about the building blocks of Earth. […]
Spectacular NASA Videos Reveal a Sun Storm in Jaw-Dropping 4K HD
A spectacular new video of the sun captured by a NASA spacecraft puts you up close and personal with a fiery storm on our closest star — all in mind-boggling 4K resolution. The video, taken by NASA’s powerful Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), was recorded on April 17 as an active sunspot unleashed an intense solar […]
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World View Raises $15 Million for High-Altitude Balloon Work
World View is developing a type of balloon it calls a “Stratollite” that can remain in the upper atmosphere for extended periods and hover over a region, providing services usually provided by orbiting spacecraft. Credit: World View Enterprises WASHINGTON — An Arizona company developing stratospheric balloons for tourism and research announced April 28 it has […]
Parallel Universes: Theories & Evidence
Our universe may live in one bubble that is sitting in a network of bubble universes in space. Credit: Sandy MacKenzie | Shutterstock Is our universe unique? From science fiction to science fact, there is a proposal out there that suggests that there could be other universes besides our own, where all the choices you […]
Sentinel-1B first image
Less than three days after it was launched, Sentinel-1B has delivered its first radar image of Earth To source
Juno Spacecraft: NASA's New Mission To Jupiter
Artist’s illustration of NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter. The probe will enter orbit around the solar system’s largest planet on July 4, 2016. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The Juno spacecraft will study Jupiter in detail to give scientists a better idea of the gas giant’s weather, magnetic environment and formation history. It is expected to arrive at […]
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Orion Crew Module for Exploration Mission-1 Lifted to Test Stand
The Orion spacecraft crew module for Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) is lifted into a test stand for pressure testing in the Neil Armstrong Operations & Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The work is an important milestone on Orion’s journey toward EM-1, its mission beyond the moon atop the Space Launch System rocket in 2018. […]
Sentinel-1B delivers
Launched on 25 April from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, Sentinel-1B has produced its first images only two hours after the radar was switched on – a record time for a space radar. To source
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