...spherical in shape explains Metzger. "And that's not just an arbitrary definition. It turns out this is an important milestone in the evolution of a planetary body, because apparently when it happens, it initiates active geology in the body.” If this...
RemoveDEBRIS, a satellite that uses a net to capture space junk, reached its first milestone this week as it successfully caught some mock debris 300 kilometres above the Earth. Like the plastic ...
... with humans onboard. Orion is slowly coming together piece by piece and in this last year a number of key milestones have been passed as the spacecraft works towards completion; last month, NASA completed the final test...
... Gaia mission, scientists have been able to rewind the history of the Milky Way and discover a major milestone in its formation; that a galaxy slightly more massive than the Small Magellanic Cloud, smashed into our...
... happy and relieved that the Voyager probes have both operated long enough to make it past this milestone,” said Suzanne Dodd, Voyager project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. “This is what...
... cause. Still, that doesn’t detract from the Sol 128 signal, which marks an important and exciting milestone for the team. “We've been waiting months for a signal like this," said Philippe Lognonné, SEIS team...