[ad_1] An independently appointed review board recently announced that NASA, their Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have exceeded expectations in taking steps to ensure the successful launch of the...

[ad_1] No ESA mission can fly until the pre-launch briefing is complete and we have the all important group photo. This is the team that will fly Euclid and settle it into its new home in space, all the while ensuring its safety and the functioning of its extremely...

[ad_1] The Ingenuity Mars helicopter's two-month silent stretch is over.Ingenuity got in touch with its handlers on June 28 via its robotic parter, the Perseverance rover, NASA officials announced today (June 30). It was the first such communication since April 26,...

[ad_1] A Super Moon stands picturesquely behind Nobbys Lighthouse in Newcastle, New South Wales. Credit: Bill Collison (Flickr) Friday, June 30As darkness falls this evening, Cassiopeia the Queen is on the upswing in the north. This circumpolar constellation rotates...

[ad_1] NASA recently used its powerful High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to take a breathtaking image of a dust devil traversing Syria Planum on Mars. One unique aspect of dust devils is their shadows can be...

[ad_1] Watch the replay of the media briefing following the 316th ESA Council which takes place on 28 and 29 June in Stockholm. ESA Council Chair Anna Rathsman (Sweden) and ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher will share the outcome of the meeting and provide an...

[ad_1] Satellites have seen smoke from Canadian wildfires gathering over the midwestern United States just days after space-based imagery spotted smoke creeping across the Atlantic into Europe.The gathering smoke over the Midwest comes from fires that have been...

[ad_1] Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL) are busy keeping the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter functioning in Jezero Crater on Mars while these robotic explorers continue the search for ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. But...