New science results from NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, or LADEE, mission indicate that…
Year: 2015
All Systems Go for NASA’s Mission to Jupiter Moon Europa
Beyond Earth, Jupiter’s moon Europa is considered one of the most promising places in the solar…
NASA Astronauts Headline Public Events in Washington, Virginia, Maryland, Online
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Barry “Butch” Wilmore will be making several stops in the Washington…
International Spacecraft Carrying NASA’s Aquarius Instrument Ends Operations
An international Earth-observing mission launched in 2011 to study the salinity of the ocean surface ended…
Measuring the Mass of a Mars-size Exoplanet
Astronomers use the gravitational tug of neighboring exoplanets to measure the mass of a Mars-size world
SOFIA at Sunset
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) takes off from Palmdale, California at sunset. SOFIA is…
Eric Morel de Westgaver presents to Michel Barnier the ESA pavilion
Eric Morel de Westgaver, Director of Industry, Procurement and Legal Services, presents to Michel Barnier, Special Adviser…
Titan’s lakes close up
Close-up radar image showing both empty and liquid-filled depressions (coloured blue) on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.…
Agreement on the collaboration between Australian and European researchers
Volker Liebig, ESA’s Director of Earth Observation Programmes (left) and David Williams, CSIRO’s Executive Director of…
Cloud chamber at Le Bourget
VIP visitors to the ESA pavilion at Le Bourget peer into a ‘cloud chamber’, which reveals…