Join the Eclipsing Binary Patrol and Spot Rare Stellar Pairs!

“I’ve never worked as a professional astronomer, but being part of the Eclipsing Binary Patrol allows…

ESA – Mars corona

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has helped solve the mystery of Mars’ escaping water. Scientists have…

Outer solar system is more populated than previously thought, research reveals

The Subaru Telescope (left) and New Horizons spacecraft (right). Credit: NAOJ/Southwest Research Institute Survey observations using…

New Galileo satellites operational after successful in-orbit testing

Applications 05/09/2024 84 views 1 likes The two new Galileo satellites launched in April have entered…

NASA’s Boeing Starliner Mission Landing Criteria, Timeline 

As NASA and Boeing prepare to return the company’s Starliner spacecraft uncrewed from the International Space…

NASA’s Boeing Starliner Mission Landing Criteria, Timeline 

As NASA and Boeing prepare to return the company’s Starliner spacecraft uncrewed from the International Space…

A space oddity—small exoplanet challenges existing theories on planet formation

Illustration of an exoplanet. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser A research team led by Lund University in Sweden…

Ames Wind Tunnel

Construction of the world’s largest wind tunnel and its original 40- by 80-foot test section. A…

BepiColombo’s best images yet highlight fourth Mercury flyby

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NASA’s Hubble, MAVEN Help Solve the Mystery of Mars’ Escaping Water

These are far-ultraviolet Hubble images of Mars near its farthest point from the Sun, called aphelion,…