Completed Plato spacecraft is ready for final tests

Science & Exploration 09/10/2025 145 views 1 likes By fitting its sunshield and solar panels, engineers…

Mars Express sees a dust devil dancing across Mars

Dust devils are whirlwinds of dust that are blown across Mars’s surface. They are one way…

Dancing dust devils trace raging winds on Mars

Science & Exploration 08/10/2025 91 views 2 likes In brief Combing through 20 years of images…

The moon’s largest crater didn’t form in the way we thought

The South Pole-Aitken basin – the mostly blue area in the centre of this topographic map…

Sentinel-1D integrated on the dolly

Sentinel-1D adjustment onto the spacecraft integration trolley. Once positioned, the spacecraft was inspected to confirm its…

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter observes comet 3I/ATLAS – GIF

On 3 October, ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) turned its eyes towards interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS…

ESA – Simulations ongoing for Sentinel-6B

Five years after the launch of Sentinel-6 ‘Michael Freilich’, mission control team at ESA’s European Space…

Satellites reveal the power of ocean swell

Applications 08/10/2025 24 views 0 likes During recent storms, satellites recorded ocean waves averaging nearly 20…

Sentinel-1D preparations underway in Kourou

Applications 08/10/2025 113 views 1 likes The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission is about to get its fourth…

How high up are meteors when they begin to glow?

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | John Ashley submitted this photo taken on August 13, 2025,…