Space station to forge ultra-fast connections

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station plan to install a high-speed radio link to enable almost…

A Moon Landing In 2024? NASA Says It'll Happen, Others Say: No Way

The Trump administration keeps repeating that the U.S. will return humans to the moon in 2024.…

Here comes the Sun!

After months of intense simulation training, two delays at the launch pad and a dress rehearsal,…

OneWeb launches 34 satellites from Kazakh cosmodrome in global internet push

The UK firm OneWeb launched 34 satellites from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early on Friday as…

Nature’s grand design

This eye-catching galaxy is known as NGC 5364.  Unmistakably a spiral, NGC 5364 is also something known…

Branching out for a new green revolution

Researchers at the University of Oxford and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered a new…

How mosquitoes find humans to bite

In a paper appearing online February 6 in Science, professor of biology Paul Garrity, Ph.D. student…

Earth from Space: Flevoland

Video: 00:03:01 In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us…

Flevoland, the Netherlands

Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over part of the Dutch province of Flevoland –…

Cheops image of its first target star

Image of HD 70843, the star chosen as the first target for Cheops, ESA’s Characterising ExOPlanet…