[ad_1] Science & Exploration 08/02/2023 5653 views 78 likes During a break from looking at planets around other stars, ESA’s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (Cheops) mission has observed a dwarf planet in our own Solar System and made a decisive contribution to...

[ad_1] Heading for the Disney+ stable of "Star Wars" shows for 2023 is a return mission for "Star Wars: Visions," the honored anthology of animated shorts set in our most favorite of science fiction galaxies. This past week, Disney+ and Lucasfilm announced news that...

[ad_1] heic2214 — Photo Release 9 November 2022 Three different moments in a far-off supernova explosion were captured in a single snapshot by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The progenitor star exploded more than 11 billion years ago, when the Universe was less...

[ad_1] The moon hunter strikes again. A team of astronomers led by Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution has found and confirmed 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter, bringing the total of moons at the giant planet to 92. The new moons were quietly announced on the...

[ad_1] Deadly wildfires continue to rage in south-central Chile destroying hundreds of thousands of hectares of land across the country. Satellite images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on 4 February show the ongoing fires and heatwave in South...

[ad_1] A mysterious Russian satellite broke apart early last month, creating a cloud of debris that could linger in Earth orbit for a while.The Kosmos 2499 spacecraft disintegrated on the night of Jan. 3, according to the U.S. Space Force's 18th Space Defense Squadron...

[ad_1] heic2215 — Science Release 15 December 2022 Researchers have found evidence for the existence of a new type of planet they have called a “water world,” where water makes up a large fraction of the entire planet. These worlds, discovered in a planetary system...

[ad_1] Now’s the time to catch periodic Comet 96P Machholz on its encore dawn performance, before it slides out of view. So, have you been following the touted ‘green comet,’ E3 ZTF? To be sure, it’s nothing more than a fuzzy patch, a binocular comet sliding through...

[ad_1] The Making of Juice’ series takes the viewer behind the scenes of the European space industry, space technology and planetary science communities around ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission.Episode 9 includes footage from the occasion of the...

[ad_1] The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft captured a stunning new view of the Red Planet's complex surface geology. The new image, taken using the orbiter's High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), focuses on the flanks of a vast volcanic plateau called...