After an exciting 2016, ESA has a busy year in store To source
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NASA Selects Two Missions to Explore the Early Solar System
NASA has selected two missions that have the potential to open new windows on one of the earliest eras in the history of our solar system – a time less than 10 million years after the birth of our sun. The missions, known as Lucy and Psyche, were chosen from five finalists and will proceed […]
This Double-Ringed Galaxy Is One of the Rarest Types Ever Seen
The newfound ringed galaxy PGC 1000714, seen here in a telescope image, is one of the rarest types of galaxies ever observed. The left panel shows a false-color image of PGC 1000714, while the right panel highlights the galaxy’s outer ring (blue) and diffuse inner ring (light green). Astronomers recently mapped the rarest type of […]
New NASA Mission Will Search for Monster Black Holes and More
NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission will measure the powerful X-rays emitted by supermassive black holes. The mission will launch three space telescopes in 2020 Monster black holes, neutron stars and pulsars are the targets of a new NASA space telescope mission scheduled to launch in 2020. Black holes can heat up nearby gases, […]
Hues in a Crater Slope
Impact craters expose the subsurface materials on the steep slopes of Mars. However, these slopes often experience rockfalls and debris avalanches that keep the surface clean of dust, revealing a variety of hues, like in this enhanced-color image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, representing different rock types. To source
China's Busy Space Launch Schedule Rivaled the U.S. in 2016
For the first time, China moved ahead of Russia in the number of rocket launches in 2016 and ended the year by tying the United States with 22 orbital missions. The statistics, complied by Harvard University astrophysicist and long-time rocket watcher Jonathan McDowell, also show that Russia’s 17 launches in 2016 fell far short of […]
Sunsets, Clouds Spin Past in Astronaut's Stunning Video of Earth from Space
A stunning new video captures sunsets, cloud formations and other beautiful Earth vistas from orbit. Wielding the camera was Jeff Williams, a NASA astronaut who has looked down on the planet for 534 days across several space missions, longer than any other American . Williams commanded Expedition 48 on the International Space Station (ISS) and […]
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The Biggest Space Missions to Watch in 2017
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | January 4, 2017 06:00am ET Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Destination: Space There’s a lot of spaceflight action on tap this year. NASA’s venerable Cassini Saturn mission will come to a dramatic end, a new exoplanet-hunting mission is scheduled to lift off and private spaceflight will likely take a […]
Spectacular Clouds of Orion Hide Massive Star Nursery (Photos, Video)
Astronomers just uncovered the most detailed view yet of a massive stellar nursery, and the photos are absolutely stunning . Pictured here is the Orion A molecular cloud, a dense region filled with cosmic gas and dust that tend to block the view of all the blooming baby stars that lie within. The cloud is […]
Spacecraft 'Sees' the Mysteries Buried Under the Polar Ice Caps of Mars
Mars’ south pole as seen by Mars Express. Like Earth, Mars possesses north and south polar ice caps. Unlike Earth, however, the Martian versions not only contain water ice, there’s there’s a thick layer of carbon dioxide ice acting as a blanket. Frozen CO2, also known as “dry ice”, is known to wax and wane […]
Space Station Photos: Expedition 50 Astronauts in Action
<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”33.5″> Expedition 50 official crew portrait Credit: NASA Expedition 50 official crew portrait with (from left) Andrei Borisenko, Shane Kimbrough, Sergey Ryzhikov, Thomas Pesquet, Peggy Whitson and Oleg Novitsky. <div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”33.5″> Expedition 49/50 Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko arrived at the International […]
NASA Books More Astronaut Flights from SpaceX, Boeing
NASA has ordered more private space taxi flights to the International Space Station using SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft (left in artist’s depiction) and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner (right). The agency has booked a total of six flights each from the companies starting in 2018. NASA has booked more astronaut flights to the International Space Station aboard private […]