Object V774104 was discovered in late October, 2015, and is one of the most distant objects ever detected. It appears to be about half the size of Pluto, but with an orbit two to three times larger than Pluto’s.Credit: Scott Sheppard, Chad Trujillo and Dave Tholen: Subaru Telescope A newly found object may set a […]
New Horizons scientists made this false color image of Pluto using a technique called principal component analysis to highlight the many subtle color differences between Pluto’s distinct regions. To source
New Horizons scientists made this false color image of Pluto using a technique called principal component analysis to highlight the many subtle color differences between Pluto’s distinct regions. To source
Tests continue for the private space company’s Dragon spacecraft’s launch escape system and rocket. The company suffered a setback in June 2015 when its Falcon 9 rocket exploded during flight , carrying a cargo mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX could return to flight before the end of 2015. Credit: SpaceX To source
Join us Friday, 13 November, at 10:00 CET for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-2A image of Qingdao and surroundings, in China To source
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Today, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet revealed the name and logo for his six-month mission to the International Space Station starting next November. Thomas will be the 10th astronaut from France to head into space and his mission name of Proxima continues the French tradition of referring to stars and constellations. To source
An Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket launches the Arabsat-6B (BADR-7) and GSAT-15 satellites from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana on Nov. 10, 2015.Credit: Arianespace PARIS — Europe’s heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket on Nov. 10 successfully placed telecommunications for Arabsat of Saudi Arabia and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in the vehicle’s sixth […]
The MAVEN spacecraft recently revealed that Mars’ once-thick atmosphere was stripped away by powerful solar activity at some time in its history. Space.com talked with Bruce Jakosky, principle investigator for MAVEN, about the findings. “MAVEN has been focused on trying to understand the changing Mars climate,” Jakosky told Space.com. Geologic evidence suggests Mars was once […]
Artist’s rendering of the new Lone Star Flight Museum being built at Ellington Airport in Houston, Texas.Credit: Lone Star Flight Museum HOUSTON — For 24 years, former astronaut Bonnie Dunbar came to Ellington Field to fly. On Monday (Nov. 9), she returned to the southeast Houston airport, the home to NASA’s aircraft operations, to dig — […]
One year since Philae made its historic landing on a comet, mission teams remain hopeful for renewed contact with the lander, while also looking ahead to next year’s grand finale: making a controlled impact of the Rosetta orbiter on the comet. To source
About this Image The navigation camera on Rosetta captured this image of Comet 67PChuryumov-Gerasimenko tumbling through space with gases escaping the larger lobe with an unnatural glow. [Read more about Comet 67P .] Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0 To source
Half an hour after sunset Thursday night, November 12, look for Saturn and the thin crescent moon low on the southwestern horizon.Credit: Starry Night software. If you’ve been looking for Saturn lately, you’ve seen it rapidly sinking towards the sun in the southwestern sky just after sunset. In reality what is happening is that Saturn […]