Mysteriously Long, Thin Cloud Returns on Mars – Not Linked to Volcanic Activity
A mysteriously long, thin cloud has again appeared over the 20-km (~12 miles / 65,000 feet) high Arsia Mons volcano on Mars. A recurrent feature,…
A mysteriously long, thin cloud has again appeared over the 20-km (~12 miles / 65,000 feet) high Arsia Mons volcano on Mars. A recurrent feature,…
Not obstacles, not complexity — not even a worldwide pandemic — could keep NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover from blasting off on its historic mission…
The composition of Antarctic micrometeorites and other tiny but precious rocks such as those from space missions — is really hard to analyze without some…
Today’s final critical milestone — acquisition of signal — has been achieved. In essence, Perseverance has phoned home to let NASA know it’s officially on…
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July…
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet has officially been assigned to the second operational flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, launching in spring 2021 from Cape Canaveral,…
NASA and its international partners have assigned crew members for Crew-2, which will be the second operational SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space…
Led by MIT researchers, one of the experiments aboard the next mission to the Red Planet aims to generate oxygen from Martian air. On July…
Discovered in March 2020, Comet NEOWISE became visible to the naked eye in July, gifting observers in the northern hemisphere with one of the most…
This video shows Jezero crater, the landing site of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on the Red Planet, based on images from ESA’s Mars…
“Stellar archeology” reveals a star stream composed of the remnants of an ancient globular cluster that was torn apart by the Milky Way’s gravity 2…
Storage is just as important aboard the International Space Station as it is on Earth. While the space station is about the size of a…
ESA’s Integral helps unravel origin of Fast Radio Bursts A global collaboration of telescopes including ESA’s Integral high-energy space observatory has detected a unique mix…
When you’re planning to explore someplace new, it’s always a good idea to bring a map so you can avoid dangerous terrain. This is true…
An international research team has presented a new look inside the “central engine” of a solar flare accompanied by an eruption, revealing an enormous electric…
With a targeted launch date of July 30, 2020, the next robotic scientist NASA is sending to the Red Planet has big ambitions. Scheduled to…
A rover expected to explore below the surface of Mars in 2022 has the potential to provide more insights The findings published in Scientific Reports,…
Study led by a University of Oregon physicist reconfigures a distance-calculation technique built around empirical observations. Using known distances of 50 galaxies from Earth to…