Today ESA awarded a €129.4 million contract covering the detailed design, manufacturing and testing of Hera, the Agency’s first mission for planetary defence. This ambitious mission will be Europe’s contribution […]
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Comet Chury’s Ultraviolet Aurora
On Earth, auroras, also called northern lights, have always fascinated people. An international consortium involving the University of Bern has now discovered such auroras in the ultraviolet wavelength range at […]
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Rainbow Comet With A Heart Of Sponge
A permeable heart with a hardened facade -the resting place of Rosetta’s lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is revealing more about the interior of the ‘rubber duck’ shaped-body looping around the […]
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SwRI awarded NASA contract to develop high-latitude mission to image the Sun’s poles
A Southwest Research Institute proposal to study the Sun’s poles — considered among the last unexplored regions of the solar system — is one of five science investigations selected as […]
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Launch of Mars 2020 Scheduled for 30 July
With Perseverance, its most complex Mars rover to date, NASA is opening a new chapter in the search for traces of ancient life on Mars. The launch of the new […]
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SwRI awarded contract to develop solar wind plasma sensor
A joint NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) team has awarded Southwest Research Institute a contract to develop the Solar Wind Plasma Sensor (SWiPS) for a satellite mission […]
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Five Years After New Horizons Flyby, 10 Cool Things About Pluto
Five years ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history. After a voyage of nearly 10 years and more than 3 billion miles, the intrepid piano-sized probe flew within 7,800 […]
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An Agency for asteroids
This year’s Asteroid Day is expanding. The annual commemoration of the largest asteroid impact in recorded history on 30 June is being preceded by plentiful digital video content, including programming […]
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Asteroid Ryuku Is Likely A Link in Planetary Formation
The solar system formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. Numerous fragments that bear witness to this early era orbit the Sun as asteroids. Around three-quarters of these are carbon-rich C-type […]
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Freeman Dyson, Scientist and Writer, Dies at 96
Freeman J. Dyson, theoretical physicist and writer, who embraced the stunning diversity of the universe with unique spirit, died on February 28, 2020, in Princeton, New Jersey, at the age […]
