Search for ET underway with CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope
Parkes radio telescope. © 2005 Shaun Amy Breakthrough Listen, the 10-year, $100-million astronomical search for intelligent life beyond Earth launched in 2015 by Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking…
ESA and the Vatican join forces to save data in the digital age
Representatives from ESA and the Vatican Apostolic Library signed a declaration to continue collaboration at a ceremony held in Vatican City on 4 November 2016, followed by a tour of…
Swarm reveals why satellites lose track
Signals (yellow lines) from GPS satellites can be interrupted when lower-orbiting satellites like Swarm fly into equatorial plasma irregularities. The green line is a sample electron density profile measured by…
Shared vision and goals for the future of Europe in space
A ‘Joint Statement on Shared Vision and Goals for the Future of European Space’ was signed by ESA Director General Jan Woerner and European Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska in Brussels today.…
ESA: Boosting Europe’s all-electric satellites
SPACEBUS NEO Copyright Thales Alenia Space Today, ESA astronaut Tim Peake opened a UK facility that will expand Europe’s capability with satellites that rely wholly on electric propulsion. Sited in Belfast,…
There are at least two trillion galaxies in the universe, ten times more than previously thought
Photo by: NASA Astronomers have long sought to determine how many galaxies there are in the universe. This is a fundamental question that we have only been able to address…
Impact! New Moon Craters Are Appearing Faster Than Thought
Temporal ratio image formed from two LROC Narrow Angle Camera images (after image divided by the before image) revealing a new 12 meter (~40 foot) diameter impact crater (Latitude: 36.536°N;…
Atlantic Storm System Delays NASA Resupply Launch to Space Station
Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft arrived on Oct. 2, 2016 at the Horizontal Integration Facility at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia for mating with the Antares rocket. Cygnus is scheduled…
Mission complete: Rosetta’s journey ends in daring descent to comet
Photo by: ESA ESA’s historic Rosetta mission has concluded as planned, with the controlled impact onto the comet it had been investigating for more than two years. Confirmation of the…