This artist’s impression of the Milky Way galaxy, Earth’s galactic home, includes stars and many other bright objects. The Milky Way is also dominated by a halo of dark matter (shown here in blue). Measurements of the mass of the galaxy help scientists better understand that otherwise-invisible halo. A new measurement of the mass of […]
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Russia, US Mulling Joint Mission to Venus
Russia and NASA are working together to develop a mission known as Venera-D, which would send an orbiter and a lander to Venus. Russia’s space program and NASA are working together on a mission to Venus that would investigate some of the scorching-hot planet’s biggest mysteries, including, perhaps, whether it harbors life. An international team of […]
[Earth Observation Research Center (EORC)] Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) Products (Version 04) Release
January 17, 2017 (JST)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) Products (Version 04) Release JAXA has started to provide a new version (Version 04) of Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) product. The GPM Version 04 data are available from January 17, 2017.Concurrently, existing […]
[Event] JAXA Symposium for Earth observing satellites
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[ISS / Japanese Experiment Module (KIBO)] Successful deployment of six CubeSats delivered by KOUNOTORI6
Successful deployment of six CubeSats delivered by KOUNOTORI6 Last Updated: January 16, 2017 On December 19, 2016, from 6:10 p.m. – 7:50 p.m. (Japan time), a total of six microsatellites were successfully deployed into orbit from the Japanese Experiment Module (“Kibo”). The series of deployments were conducted in the following order. First: three 1U-sized CubeSats, […]
Remembering Gene Cernan – Singing and Hopeful On The Moon | Video
By Steve Spaleta | January 16, 2017 08:30pm ET The last person to walk on the Moon had some fun on his stay on Luna. Cernan and Apollo 17 crewmate Harrison Schmitt sang a few bars of Ed Haley’s “The Fountain in the Park” while moonwalking. Some of Cernan’s last words before blasting away from the […]
SmallGEO briefing
Watch the SmallGEO media briefing on Wednesday 18 January at ESA Headquarters, from 11:30 CET To source
Authors of 'The Expanse' Preview Syfy's Season 2
Season 2 of the high-flying “Expanse” TV show is coming soon, and Space.com can’t wait — so we caught up with the book’s authors, who are also deeply involved with the new show, about what to expect when it returns Feb. 1. Earlier, we talked with authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck — who use […]
We Can Learn a Lot From the Changing Night Sky
Amateur photographer Ann Gutschlag caught the aurora australis (southern lights) over her back fence in Invercargill, the southernmost city of New Zealand, on Sept. 20, 2015. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. You cannot feel or hear the world turning. It […]
Black Hole and Galaxy Crash Supercharge Blazing-Fast Particles
Astronomers have discovered an immense surge of energy coming from a cosmic particle accelerator located about 2 billion light years from Earth. It’s powered by interactions between a supermassive black hole and the colliding galaxy clusters Abell 3411 and Abell 3412. Using several telescopes, researchers have traced extremely energetic particles back to a giant black […]
Apollo Astronaut Eugene Cernan, Last Man to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 82
U.S. astronaut Gene Cernan, who as the commander of the final Apollo lunar landing mission in 1972 became known as the “last man on the moon,” died on Monday (Jan. 16). He was 82. NASA confirmed Cernan’s death on its website and social media channels, noting he was surrounded by his family at the time […]
Daily Sun
Space Science Image of the Week: An image a day of the Sun, taken by the Proba-2 satellite throughout 2016 To source
Japan's Small Experimental Rocket Fails to Launch Tiny Satellite
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s experimental SS-520-4 rocket is prepared to launch the TRICOM-1 microsatellite into orbit. The rocket failed to reach orbit after its launch on Jan. 15, 2017 from Japan’s Uchinoura Space Center. The first flight of a tiny experimental Japanese rocket, touted as the world’s smallest booster designed to launch a satellite […]