This is the spiral galaxy NGC 3185, located some 80 million light-years away from us in…
Daytime Dynamo Rocket Launch
Two suborbital rockets were successfully launched 15 seconds apart on the morning of July 4, 2013,…
Mars on Earth
Technology image of the week: Dutch students explore ESA's 'Mars Yard', designed for planetary rover testing
Mars on Earth
A little corner of ESA’s technical heart that is forever Mars: this rubble-strewn model of the…
Peruvian landscape
The foothills of the Andes mountains near the southern coast of Peru were captured by the…
Olympus Mons SE flank topography
Colour-coded topographical map of the southeastern flank of the Olympus Mons volcano on Mars. The transitions…
Long-Running NASA/CNES Ocean Satellite Takes Final Bow
The curtain has come down on a superstar of the satellite oceanography world that played the…
Honda’s interactive robot museum guide sees glitches, not quite a ‘people person’
TOKYO - Honda Motor Co.'s walking, talking interactive robot is running into glitches in its new…
Kepler Mission Manager Update: Preparing for Recovery
Exploratory recovery commanding of Kepler’s reaction wheels will commence mid-to-late July.
Anniversary of the Mars Pathfinder Landing
Mars Pathfinder was launched on Dec. 4, 1996 at 1:58:07 am EST on a Delta II…