Researchers are busy analysing some of the final data sent back from the Cassini spacecraft which has been in orbit around Saturn for more than 13 years until the end of its mission in September 2017.
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Spacewalking astronauts worked to complete repairs to a cosmic ray detector outside the International Space Station on Saturday and give it new life.
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Jan 25, 2020
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New research led by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and published today in Science Advances shows that lava flows on Venus may be only a few years old, suggesting that Venus could be volcanically active today—making ...
Space Exploration
Jan 03, 2020
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An unusual chunk in a meteorite may contain a surprising bit of space history, based on new research from Washington University in St. Louis.
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NASA's Lucy mission team is seeing double after discovering that Eurybates, the asteroid the spacecraft has targeted for flyby in 2027, has a small satellite. This "bonus" science exploration opportunity for the project was ...
Space Exploration
Jan 10, 2020
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A conventional compass would be of little use on the moon, which today lacks a global magnetic field.
Space Exploration
Jan 03, 2020
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They were seen sparkling across the skies of Montana right around Christmas: a tidy row of lights that some mistook to be UFOs. The glowing celestial train has been spotted in California, Texas, in the Netherlands and even ...
Space Exploration
Jan 02, 2020
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ESA's technical heart has begun to produce oxygen out of simulated moondust.
Space Exploration
Jan 20, 2020
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Fifteen years ago today, ESA's Huygens probe made history when it descended to the surface of Saturn's moon Titan and became the first probe to successfully land on another world in the outer solar system. However, during ...
Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2020
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The results are finally in for the first chocolate chip cookie bake-off in space.
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