Could Sweating Spacecraft Make Re-Entry Easier?

When ISS astronauts return home, they have a hot ride back to Earth’s surface. It’s been…

Mars Has Many Features that Match Earth

Despite being cold, desiccated, and having a thin atmosphere, Mars is similar to Earth in many…

A Single Impact Could Leave a Giant Planet Ringing for Millions of Years

To understand how chaotic the early Solar System was, we need only gaze at the Moon.…

A Glimpse of a Meatball

The NASA “meatball” logo mounted on the south side of the Flight Research Building at NASA’s…

There’s a Chorus of Gravitational Waves Coming from the Core of the Milky Way. Will We Hear Them?

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and it’s not alone.…

MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 arrive in Florida

The first Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1), with the Copernicus Sentinel-4 instrument on board, arrived at…

MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 arrive at Cape Canaveral harbour

The first Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1), with the Copernicus Sentinel-4 instrument on board, arrived at…

Is a mammoth black hole lurking in this nearby galaxy?

Explore spiral galaxy Messier 83 through Webb’s infrared eyes. The James Webb Space Telescope has found…

Long-term record of biomass from space

Forests play an important role in the global carbon cycle, influencing levels of carbon dioxide in…

ESA – Proba-3’s orbit

The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission has achieved its ambitious goal when its two spacecraft, the…