Günther Hasinger, ESA Director of Science, is inviting the public to share their views on the questions that Voyage 2050, ESA’s space science programme for the 2035-2050 time frame, should […]
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ESA Plans A Mission To The Smallest Asteroid Ever Visited
ESA’s planet-defending Hera mission will set a new record in space. The asteroid investigator will not only be the first spacecraft to explore a binary asteroid system – the Didymos […]
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Understanding The Origin Of Titan’s Thick, Nitrogen-Rich Atmosphere
A new Southwest Research Institute study tackles one of the greatest mysteries about Titan, one of Saturn’s moons: the origin of its thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. The study posits that one […]
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New Horizons reveals Kuiper Belt object is a contact binary
The distant object that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Jan. 1 is now taking shape as a body — or bodies — unlike any visited by a spacecraft to date.
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OSIRIS-REx Enters Close Orbit Around Bennu
At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) away, carried out a […]
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Watch Comet 46P/Wirtanen as It Nears Earth
On Dec. 16, you can get your best look yet at a comet — with a mouthful of a name — that has been hurtling toward Earth all month.When you […]
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University of Alaska, GeoNorth Information Systems, Lockheed Martin Partner to Collect Arctic Surveillance Data for the NGA
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) awarded GeoNorth Information Systems (GNIS) a five-year, $15 million contract for persistent surveillance services of the Arctic region. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will provide a scalable geospatial processing platform […]
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Why We Care About Space Rocks
The entire history of human existence is a tiny blip in our solar system’s 4.5-billion-year history. No one was around to see planets forming and undergoing dramatic changes before settling […]
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BepiColombo Leaves Earth For Mercury
The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury blasted off on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou at 01:45:28 GMT on 20 October on its exciting mission to study the […]
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Mercury’s Mysteries to Be Probed by British Science
In the early hours of tomorrow morning (Saturday, 20th October [in Europe; late Friday, 19 October, in the United States]) a spacecraft made possible by the best of UK space […]
