[ad_1] In 2013, a meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk with the force of 30 Hiroshima bombs. The blast injured over a thousand people and shattered windows across six cities. Yet the object—roughly 20 meters wide—had gone completely undetected. That event jolted the world into remembering: space isn’t empty, and Earth isn’t invincible. […]
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[ad_1] The sun’s corona (or outer atmosphere) has proved a difficult subject for solar scientists on Earth to study, appearing only in a total solar eclipse. This phenomenon, occurring once in around 18 months, was their only opportunity to observe parts of the corona. However, with Proba-3’s recent mission, research can advance at a much […]
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[ad_1] After nearly twenty years of operation, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft has received a software update that allows it to look at the mysterious Martian moon Phobos at much greater detail than ever before. “During this flyby, we used MARSIS to study Phobos from as close as 83 km. Getting closer […]
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[ad_1] The Solar Orbiter mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) had its last close approach to the Sun at around 12.42 AM today. But before it did. It took a sequence of images that depict the sun blazing in all its glory, popping and crackling with solar explosions. The sequence released by ESA […]
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[ad_1] The first European female commander on the International Space Station, Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, answered young girls’ questions — accompanied by a lookalike Barbie doll. Cristoforetti recently took time to describe some of the experiments conducted aboard the ISS, as well as answer questions from five girls 8 to 11 years old from across […]
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[ad_1] Cristoforetti shared two images on Twitter with the caption, “We had a spectacular view of the Soyuz launch! Sergey, Dmitry and Frank will come knocking on our door in just a couple of hours… looking forward to welcoming them to their new home.”Hines shared four images with the caption “Ever wonder what a [rocket] […]
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[ad_1] The European Space Agency (ESA) released the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images and infrared spectrum of Mars. The Webb telescope captured its first images and spectra of the red planet on September 5, 2022. Webb is situated approximately 1.5 million kilometres away from our planet at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2). […]
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[ad_1] The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this glittering image of the globular cluster NGC 6540 in the Sagittarius constellation. The image was taken with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys. This is a composite image of an area of the sky that encompasses both instruments’ different fields of view. Globular […]
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[ad_1] Last Sunday, ISRO’s maiden SSLV (Small Satellite Launch Vehicle) mission lifted off successfully. But something went wrong almost immediately when ISRO chairman S Somnath announced that the SSLV D1 mission suffered data loss. Before long, ISRO announced that the two satellites deployed by the launch vehicle would not be useful because they were put […]
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[ad_1] The European Space Agency (ESA) has begun preliminary technical discussions with Elon Musk’s SpaceX that could lead to the temporary use of its launchers after the Ukraine conflict blocked Western access to Russia’s Soyuz rockets. The private American competitor to Europe’s Arianespace has emerged as a key contender to plug a temporary gap alongside […]
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