Earth’s magnetic heartbeat
With more than two years of measurements by ESA’s Swarm satellite trio, changes in the strength of Earth’s magnetic field are being mapped in detail. To source
Galileo satellites fuelled for flight
Europe’s latest Galileo satellites have been filled with fuel in preparation for their joint launch on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 24 May. To source
Mystery Mission: Air Force's X-37B Space Plane Nears 1 Year in Orbit
The first X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle waits in the encapsulation cell of the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle on April 5, 2010, at the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Florida. Half of the Atlas V 5-meter fairing is visible in the background. Credit: U.S. Air Force The U.S. military’s uncrewed X-37B space plane is nearing one year […]
Rare Mercury Transit Thrills Skywatchers Around the World (Photos)
Stojan Stojanovski took these great images of the May 9, 2016 Mercury transit from Ohrid, Macedonia. Credit: Stojan Stojanovski Mercury crossed the sun’s face from Earth’s perspective for the first time in a decade Monday (May 9), and skywatchers around the world took in the rare celestial sight. Mercury popped onto the solar disc at […]
Pluto Behaves More Like a Planet Than Thought
Enhanced-color image of Pluto from New Horizons’ approach on July 14, 2015. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Apologies to all of the Pluto-isn’t-a-real-planet folks out there but researchers have found a way in which this ever-surprising world acts more planet-like than dwarf-like: how it interacts with the solar wind. During New Horizons’ flyby through the Plutonian system in […]
Transit of Mercury
As the smallest planet in the Solar System crossed the fiery face of the Sun on Monday 9 May, one of ESA’s smallest satellites was watching To source
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Pluto's Moon Hydra Sheathed in Ultraclean Water Ice
Hydra, Pluto’s outermost moon, is about 31 miles (50 kilometers) in diameter. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Pluto’s outermost moon, Hydra, was named for a legendary Greek water monster, and it’s living up to its name: New data show that the little moon is almost entirely covered in “nearly pristine” water ice, NASA officials say. The new data […]
Earth from Space
Wolfram Mauser, Chairman of the Earth Science Advisory Committee, joins us at the Living Planet Symposium in Prague to discuss some of the highlights from ESA’s Earth Explorer missions To source
NASA Finds 1,284 Alien Planets, Biggest Haul Yet, with Kepler Space Telescope
The number of known alien planets has just gone up by more than 60 percent. NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered 1,284 new exoplanets , including nine rocky worlds that might be capable of supporting life as we know it, astronomers announced today (May 10). This is by far the largest haul of alien planets […]
Surprising Geysers on Saturn Moon Enceladus Hint at Plumbing Mystery
Geysers spout from Enceladus as seen by the Cassini spacecraft. It observed 101 geysers during a campaign in 2010. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute A small water jet on Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, spews its fiercest eruptions when the moon is farthest from the planet, a new study suggests, but the overall gas output […]
See SpaceX's Epic Ocean Rocket Landing From 3 Angles (Video)
This is what it looks like when a rocket blazes down out of a pitch-black sky and makes a pinpoint landing on a ship at sea. On Friday (May 6), SpaceX brought the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket down softly on a robotic ship called “Of Course I Still Love You,” which was […]
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