31 May 2017
NASA to 'touch the Sun' with Parker Solar Probe
... is so much hotter than its surface. And we’re very proud to be able to carry Gene’s name with us on this amazing voyage of discovery," said Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist Nicola Fox, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics...
23 April 2018
CubeSats lead the way for new NASA missions
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 ...
25 July 2018
Radiation on Europa dictates where search for life begins
...’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...
17 September 2018
Newly discovered vortex on Saturn could be part of a huge towering structure
...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...
19 October 2018
Countdown begins for the launch of BepiColombo
... 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.
14 December 2018
VSS Unity reaches edge of space in landmark test flight
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 ...
