NASA’s next science missions will head for Venus, Io, or Triton0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 14, 2020
Four proposals were selected to move to the next stage of NASA’s Discovery Program
Four proposals were selected to move to the next stage of NASA’s Discovery Program
The future of space exploration might be through tiny satellites that can fit in the palm of your hand.
Last night, ESA’s Planetary Defence team observed the rare moment in which an object escaped our planet’s gravity, in contrast to their normal objects of study—potentially hazardous rocks that could strike it.
The majority of stars in the universe will become luminous enough to blast surrounding asteroids into successively smaller fragments using their light alone, according to a University of Warwick astronomer
Researchers can now analyze precious samples of lunar rock atom by atom
Scientists have discovered an asteroid with such a strange surface that they have named it the “golf ball”.
Something — or someone — has its deep-space music on repeat.
Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA to study our Sun, launched at 05:03 CET on February 10, 2020 (11:03 p.m. EST on February 9) on an Atlas V 411 rocket from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. At 06:03 CET (12:24 a.m. EST), mission controllers at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, received a signal from the spacecraft indicating that its solar panels had successfully deployed. In the first two days after launch, Solar Orbiter will deploy its instrument boom and several antennas that will communicate with Earth and gather scientific data.
Scientists studying so-called ‘flammable ice’ in the Sea of Japan have made a startling discovery—the existence of life within microscopic bubbles.
What if Earth were more like its larger cousins?