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[ad_1] NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission recently reached its fifth anniversary of service to humanity as it continues to tirelessly scan the heavens for worlds beyond. Dubbed as an all-sky mission, TESS was launched on April 18, 2018, aboard...
[ad_1] Science & Exploration 25/04/2023 2350 views 54 likes The ESA/NASA SOHO observatory has overturned 14 years of thinking about the strange Sun-skirting ‘rock comet’ known as Phaethon that could reopen the mystery of how the Geminid meteor shower was born....
[ad_1] With over 50 Mars flights under its belt, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter continues to impress.During its 51st flight on Saturday (April 22), Ingenuity took a photo of its companion robot, the Perseverance rover, from 40 feet (12 meters) above the Martian surface....
[ad_1] If we want to know what it’ll look like in about 4.5 billion years when our galaxy merges with Andromeda, we might take a look at ARP 220. ARP 220 is a pair of galaxies that are in the process of merging. The merging galaxies emit brilliant infrared light, and...
[ad_1] At the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, USA, on 18 April, ESA signed a letter of intent with the Swedish National Space Agency to send an ESA astronaut to visit the International Space Station on an Axiom mission. The flight and the name of the astronauts...
[ad_1] Deimos, a moon of Mars, is seen in front of the red planet in a high-resolution image from the United Arab Emirates' Emirates Mars Mission spacecraft. (Image credit: Emirates Mars Mission)A moon of Mars showed off its pockmarked face in an unprecedented closeup...
[ad_1] In the hunt for habitable worlds around other stars, planetary atmospheres provide fertile places to look. But, as a group of scientists at the Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Studies in Germany found, maybe astronomers should focus on a star’s...
[ad_1] Enabling & Support 20/04/2023 3017 views 78 likes Making use of the very first resources of another world would be a major feat for our species, bringing us closer to living in space to stay. But reaching such a milestone will take sustained inventiveness...
[ad_1] A balloon-based telescope may help astronomers unravel the mysteries of dark matter after its first images of the cosmos from the edge of space. The Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) was carried to an altitude high over Earth's atmosphere on...
[ad_1] NASA recently announced the astronauts that will make up the Artemis II crew. This mission will see the four-person crew conduct a circumlunar flight, similar to what the uncrewed Artemis I mission performed, and return to Earth. This mission will pave the way...