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Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Tim Kopra of NASA posted this May 15, 2016 photograph to social media, writing, “Water etchings in western @Mexico sands. @Space_Station #Explore” To source
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst has been assigned a new mission to the International Space Station, where he will fulfil the role of commander during the second part of his six-month mission in 2018. To source
Images from Sentinel-2A over the last five months have been used to create a remarkable cloud-free view of Africa To source
Technology image of the week: this Lego model of Europe’s ExoMars 2020 rover on its lander is a tool, being used by robotics engineers during an ‘egress’ test campaign To source
Video briefing on the next Galileo launch on 24 May, including views of the satellites and an interview with ESA’s Navigation Director Paul Verhoef To source
Former NASA astronauts and identical twins Scott and Mark Kelly are being honored with the renaming of their elementary school in West Orange, New Jersey. Credit: collectSPACE.com A New Jersey elementary school is about to become the newest member of the “crew” of U.S. educational institutions that have been named for astronauts. On Thursday (May […]
A glowing gas cloud full of young stars shines brightly in a new picture from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. The gas cloud, a nebula called LHA 120-N55, is about 163,000 light-years away from Earth and is situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud , a nearby dwarf galaxy that’s one […]
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A visitor to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex takes a virtual tour of Mars, in the new exhibit “Destination: Mars,” debuting in the summer of 2016. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Microsoft Virtual-reality systems under development could train astronauts, maneuver the Mars rover and support explorers on their long journey to Mars. Yesterday (May 17) at the Humans […]
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly inside the International Space Station’s cupola during his one-year mission aboard the orbiting lab. Credit: NASA Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has been back on Earth for more than two months, but much of the science conducted during his unprecedented yearlong stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) just landed. When […]
The Jupiter fireball of March 17, 2016, captured by Gerrit Kernbauer and John McKeon. Credit: G. Kernbauer, J. McKeon, S. Voltmer Jupiter doesn’t get whacked by asteroids and comets quite as often as scientists had thought. Objects big enough to generate a fireball visible from Earth — such as the spectacular one that occurred on […]