Smiley Face on Jupiter Wants You to Have a Nice Day (Photo)
Jupiter appears to be smiling at the solar system in this image created by citizen scientist Randy Ahn, using data from Juno’s JunoCam instrument. In JunoCam’s view, Jupiter is only half-lit, so Ahn copied the image and flipped it to create a fully illuminated circle. Jupiter appears to be flashing a big smile at the […]
Final exams
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and crew practise for the final Soyuz spacecraft exams before launch on 16 November To source
NASA, Citizen Scientists Discover Potential New Hunting Ground for Exoplanets
Via a NASA-led citizen science project, eight people with no formal training in astrophysics helped discover what could be a fruitful new place to search for planets outside our solar system – a large disk of gas and dust encircling a star known as a circumstellar disk. To source
New Expedition 49-50 Crew Arrives At Space Station – Docking Video
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Hubble Spins a Web Into a Giant Red Spider Nebula
Huge waves are sculpted in this two-lobed nebula called the Red Spider Nebula, located some 3,000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. To source
Taking an EVA with the Mars 160 Crew
Mars 160 crewmember Annalea Beattie examines a sample on an EVA in the Utah desert. The Mars Society is conducting an ambitious two-phase Mars 160 Twin Desert-Arctic Analog mission to study how seven crewmembers could live, work and perform science on a true mission to Mars. Mars 160 crewmember Annalea Beattie is chronicling the mission […]
At Mars, ExoMars Science Mission Goes on Despite Missing Lander
Artist’s illustration of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter at Mars. PASADENA, Calif. — The ExoMars 2016 mission is in business despite the apparent failure of its lander to touch down softly on the Red Planet Wednesday (Oct. 19), European Space Agency (ESA) officials stressed. The lander, known as Schiaparelli, seems to have deployed its parachute […]
New US-Russian Crew Arrives at International Space Station
A Russian Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko nears the International Space Station ahead of docking in this still image from a video camera on the space station captured on Oct. 21, 2016. The newest space station crew has arrived at last. NASA astronaut Shane […]
ExoMars Lander Slammed Into Mars At Over 186 MPH – Crash Site Seen | Video
By Steve Spaleta | October 21, 2016 04:48pm ET Europe’s ExoMars lander’s thrusters shut down prematurely, causing a free fall that was estimated to be between 1.2 to 2.5 miles (2 to 4 km). It was likely traveling more than 186 mph (300 km/h) when it impacted, with nearly a full tank of propellent. [Full […]
Kathmandu
Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2 false-colour image of Nepal’s capital city, Kathmandu, and part of the Himalayan foothills To source
Looting Asteroids' Water Will Make Launches Cheaper
There are hundreds of satellites in geostationary orbit, meaning that they orbit the Earth at roughly the same pace that our planet spins. It’s a long way from where humans currently roam in space; while the International Space Station is about 250 miles above Earth, geostationary orbit is about 10 times higher — at 27,000 […]
Media Invited to Rare View of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors
Media are invited to join NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Wednesday, Nov. 2, for an update about what’s in store for NASA’s next great observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, and a rare glimpse of the telescope’s mirrors. To source
Look Out Below! Landslides Spotted on Pluto's Moon Charon
“Serenity Chasma” on Pluto’s moon Charon, taken by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on July 14, 2015, from a distance of 48,912 miles (78,717 kilometers). Look out below! Scientists have found evidence of landslides on Pluto’s moon Charon . This is the first time this geologic feature has been discovered in the Kuiper […]