NASA’s TESS mission might have stolen all of the headlines recently in it’s quest to find more exoplanets, but another mission from NASA has recently shown that you don’t need to be big and burly to reap the same rewards. Called ASTERIA, or the ...
...’s surface using data from Galileo's flybys of Europa two decades ago and electron measurements from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft. "If we want to understand what's going on at the surface of Europa and how that links to the ocean underneath...
...structure spanning a vertical range of several hundred kilometres.” Saturn's original visually striking hexagon was discovered by NASA's Voyager spacecraft in the 1980s. Its sides stretch for a staggering 14,500 kilometres (9,000 miles) – that’s over...
... spacecraft into normal operational mode — a process that is expected to take about four days. Then hopefully it is bon voyage for the next seven years as Bepi cruises to its hostile destination.
Virgin Galactic’s passenger spaceship has made history with her maiden spaceflight as it successfully reached the edge of space yesterday to return without a hitch back in the Mojave Desert in California. After taking off attached to the company’s ...
... (AU) away from the planet we live on. Thats a heck of a distance for a small sat to navigate considering that the Voyager probes are still less than 150 AU from Earth even after travelling for more than 40 years...