19 April 2021
Success for NASA as Ingenuity makes the first ever powered, controlled flight on Mars
... swiftly with confirmation that battery data had been received. All the data looks healthy, the mission team said. After a few minutes anxious wait, applause erupted in the control room when it was announced...
16 August 2021
Saturn's rings help reveal the planet has a "fuzzy" core
... is also noteworthy. Saturn's gaseous atmosphere is so immense, it crushed and vaporised NASA’s Cassini spacecraft when it ended its mission by diving into the giant planet in 2017. It is also what stops scientists from peering down through the...
21 December 2018
Still time to see this years brightest comet
... for ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft but the launch window was missed so 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko became the missions target in the end. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope photographed comet 46P/Wirtanen on 13 December when the comet...
23 February 2021
NASA releases first audio recording of Mars and stunning landing video of Perseverance
... week, control teams at JPL will command Perseverance to switch to a new software program governing the rover’s surface mission. Officials said last week the rover could be ready for its test drive by its eighth or ninth...
March 2017
Space is open for business
... of working together. Mariana Mazzucato, professor of Science Policy Research at the University of Sussex, highlighted the success of mission-oriented organisations like ESA, and the role of the governments supporting them. Promoting the role of the...
07 December 2016
Dark matter not as clumpy as previously thought
...the findings published by those involved in the Planck mission. This previous study, which probed the fundamental ... intriguing discrepancy with Planck cosmology at the moment. Future missions such as the Euclid satellite and the Large Synoptic Survey ...
