How Can Astronauts Avoid Vision Loss from Spaceflight?

Human bodies are sacks of fluids supported by skeletons. The entire human organism has evolved over…

Astronomers discover new open cluster with Gaia

Image of Ash-1 obtained at DSS2-colored optical wavelength in ALADIN sky atlas. Credit: Tadross et al.,…

NASA’s Europa Clipper Gets Set of Super-Size Solar Arrays

The largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for planetary exploration just got its ‘wings’ — massive…

Sentinel-2C in the Vega launch tower

In preparation for liftoff on 4 September 2024 (3 September Kourou time), the Vega–Sentinel-2C upper-composite has…

X-ray telescopes could also study exoplanets, say astronomers

By combining a large X-ray telescope with state-of-the-art scientific instruments, Athena will address key questions in…

Juice’s lunar-Earth flyby: the movie

On 19–20 August 2024, Juice successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, with flight controllers guiding the…

Hubble Pinpoints a Dim, Starry Mini-galaxy

2 min read Hubble Pinpoints a Dim, Starry Mini-galaxy NASA, ESA, and D. Weisz (University of…

Juice’s lunar-Earth flyby: the movie

On 19–20 August 2024, Juice successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, with flight controllers guiding the…

Ice caps on Mars offer clues to ancient climates

Satellite image of Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS As a first-year master’s student in the Department of Earth…

Sentinel-2C in the Vega launch tower

In preparation for liftoff on 4 September 2024 (3 September Kourou time), the Vega–Sentinel-2C upper-composite has…