Mars is lacking in the vast supply of natural resources we’ve come to rely on here on Earth, and astronauts attempting…
The BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), which is currently on an ambitious mission to the best planet with a…
The internet is full of important life lessons; things you really shouldn’t do, like lighting yourself on fire for a…
The world’s most advanced air pollution monitoring satellite recently sent back its first images, illustrating the…
So far, 2017 hasn’t exactly been a great year, but if you look hard enough, you’ll find the world is still filled with…
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Galileo satellites have been having a bad time for the past 17 years. Now, the 10…
Landing on Mars is hard, but the European Space Agency’s first attempt—the Beagle 2 probe—came maddeningly close to…
A joint mission led by the European Space Agency and Roscosmos arrives at Mars next week, and its first order of…
After two years of science, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission ended today in a gentle crash-landing. But if…
The Rosetta spacecraft has spent three years peering at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from orbit—but this week, its…
In just seven days, the Rosetta spacecraft will smash into Comet 67P. A new visualization shows how it’ll go down.
Some may call it excessive, unreasonable, exhibitionist. What kind of masochist wants to stare at a billion pinpricks…
In two weeks, the European Space Agency will crash-land its prized Rosetta spacecraft, marking a dramatic end to the…
With only a few days left before it’s scheduled to crash-land on the surface of Comet 67P, the Rosetta spacecraft is…
In October, the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars 2016 mission will land the Schiaparelli rover on the Red Planet. Here’s…
Set yourself a reminder for September 30—that’s when the Rosetta spacecraft will make a controlled descent and crash on…
There’s no shortage of footage showing what life aboard the International Space Station is like, but unless you’ve had…
Scientists have long debated the possibility that some of the key ingredients for life on Earth were brought to our…
Luckily for Sentinel-3a, there’s no bags to pack, no TSA, and expensive satellites only fly first class.
These are the vast plains of Katwijk. That’s not the name of a new Martian valley or a hidden lunar crater, though…
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