Greg Force was just a boy when his father, the director of a NASA tracking station…
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Prospecting the Moon
A European drill and sample analysis package will search for water ice and other chemicals under…
Research in space for all: foams
Foams are ubiquitous in our daily lives: they are used to produce food, detergents and plastics.…
A beautiful whorl
Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes. One of the key galaxy types we see in the Universe…
Palm oil plantations
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over palm oil plantations in East Kalimantan – the Indonesian…
Earth from space: Palm oil plantations, Borneo
In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over palm…
Bioluminescent plankton hunters capture 'magical' glow
Photographers and nature lovers capture the natural phenomenon that lights up the sea. Click…
Hawaii telescope protesters don't back down after arrests
Protesters didn’t back down from their long-running effort to stop construction of a $1.4 billion telescope,…
Canadian platform spills 3,200 gallons of oil-mix into Atlantic
An oil platform off the Canadian island of Newfoundland spilled nearly 3,200 gallons of an oil-water…
Great Barrier Reef agency breaks with Australia gvt in climate warning
The agency that manages the Great Barrier Reef broke ranks with Australia’s conservative government to call…