NGC 299 is an open star cluster located within the Small Magellanic Cloud just under 200,000 light-years away. To source
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ESA and the Vatican join forces to save data in the digital age
At a ceremony held in Vatican City today, ESA and the Vatican Apostolic Library have agreed to continue their years-long cooperation on the preservation, management and exploitation of archived information. To source
Incoming! How NASA and FEMA Would Respond to an Asteroid Threat
A near-Earth object on course to hit the planet would require nationwide — or global — coordination to minimize threat. It’s a scary scenario: an asteroid headed for Earth, just four years away from slamming into our home planet. It may be too short a span to plan an asteroid-deflection mission , but it’s long enough […]
Undiscovered Moons May Lurk in Our Own Solar System
A 1986 image of Saturn’s rings taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, including two moons it found: 1986U7 and 1986U8, now called Cordelia and Orphelia, respectively. In the 1970s and 1980s, NASA sent twin spacecraft — Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 — on a quest to explore the solar system. Both probes zoomed by Jupiter […]
Pío XI
Earth observation image of the week: Chile’s Bernardo O’Higgins National Park and the Pío XI Glacier, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme To source
[International Cooperation] Turkey hands over samples to Japan for space environment long-term exposure experiment to be conducted under Turkey-Japan cooperation on Kibo utilization! Samples to be loaded onboard “KOUNOTORI6”.
Topics List Nov. 4, 2016 UpdatedTurkey hands over samples to Japan for space environment long-term exposure experiment to be conducted under Turkey-Japan cooperation on Kibo utilization! Samples to be loaded onboard “KOUNOTORI6”. In September, JAXA and the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications (MTMAC) of the Republic of Turkey signed a cooperation agreement on […]
[Earth Observation Research Center (EORC)] ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 Observation Results on M 6.2 earthquake in central Italy.
ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 Observation Results on M 6.2 earthquake in central Italy Posted: August 25, 2016, 8:00 (UTC)Updated: September 1, 2016, 7:00 (UTC) Updated: November 4, 2016, 8:00 (UTC) On August 24, 2016 at 23:00 (UTC), an emergency observation with the Phased Array-type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar-2 (PALSAR-2) aboard the Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 (ALOS-2, “DAICHI-2”) was […]
Curiosity Finds Iron-Nickel Meteorite On Mars | Video
By Steve Spaleta | November 3, 2016 12:56pm ET The Mars Science Laboratory came across an unusual golf ball-sized object on the surface of the planet on Oct. 27, 2016. After analysis with the rover’s ChemCam laser, it was confirmed that it’s an iron nickel meteorite “fallen from the Red Planet’s sky,” according to NASA’s […]
Schiaparelli crash site in colour
New high-resolution images taken by a NASA orbiter show parts of the ExoMars Schiaparelli module and its landing site in colour on the Red Planet. To source
Sentinel satellites reveal east–west shift in Italian quake
New information on the effects of the 30 October earthquake that struck central Italy continues to emerge as scientists analyse radar scans from satellites. To source
A Terrifying Alien Comes to 'Life' on the Space Station…Watch the Trailer!
In the upcoming science-fiction thriller “Life,” one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time turns into a catastrophic nightmare that leaves astronauts in the International Space Station fighting for their lives. In the film, six astronauts aboard the space station study a sample collected from Mars that could provide evidence for extraterrestrial life on […]
Curiosity Rover Finds Weird 'Egg Rock' Meteorite on Mars
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity stumbled upon a dark grey, golf-ball-size object last week that looks nothing like the typical red-orange rocks that are normally seen on Mars. To figure out exactly what this weird rock is and where it came from, Curiosity used its on-board rock-zapping laser to analyze the rock’s chemical composition. This test revealed that […]
Orion Crew Module Underway Recovery Testing
U.S. Navy divers and other personnel in a rigid hull Zodiac boat have attached tether lines to a test version of the Orion crew module during Underway Recovery Test 5 in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. NASA and the U.S. Navy are conducting a series of tests to practice for recovery of […]