10 September 2018
IAU wrong about Pluto's planetary status say scientists
...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...
21 September 2018
Net to capture space junk passes debut debris collection
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 ...
26 October 2018
Orion's service module ready to be shipped from Europe
... 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...
02 November 2018
Scientists unravel the formation history of the Milky Way
... 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...
11 December 2018
Voyager 2 joins its twin in interstellar space
... 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...
24 April 2019
InSight detects first marsquake
... 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...
