Mercury’s sodium tail is now appearing in special filters

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Steven Bellavia captured Mercury’s sodium tail on the morning of…

Europe’s next mission to Venus – Envision this (introduction)

Meet Envision. Europe’s next mission to Venus. Planned for launch in 2031. Envision will study Venus from…

ESA – Circling a martian butterfly

ESA’s Mars Express takes us on a dizzying flight around a butterfly crater on Mars. A butterfly…

Student Art Murals at Johnson Celebrate 25 Years of Humanity in Space 

Select walls at NASA’s Johnson Space Center have been transformed into works of art. Each piece…

Hubble Seeks Clusters in ‘Lost Galaxy’

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535. Image Credit: ESA/Hubble &…

Planned satellite launches could ruin Hubble Space Telescope images

A simulated image representing the projected contamination by satellite trails in a future space telescope image…

EarthCARE’s instruments work in synergy to improve climate models

True to its promise, the European Space Agency’s EarthCARE satellite is now being used to calculate directly how…

NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Advances Research Aboard Space Station

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is wrapping up his first mission aboard the International Space Station in…

Forming moon may have taken three big impacts early in Earth’s history

The moon may have had a more complicated birth than we thought NASA/NOAA Multiple impacts on…

EarthCARE lifts the clouds on climate models

Applications 03/12/2025 41 views 1 likes True to its promise, the European Space Agency’s EarthCARE satellite…