October 2018
Could salty brines be the key to microbial life on Mars?
... capable of supporting a known organism”. This definition takes a step further than a common definition used in space science: “a habitable environment is one capable of supporting liquid water”. The former definition considers not just the liquid...
09 October 2015
First Cubesat from American Tribal College Sent into Space
BisonSat aims at developing skills in space science and engineering. The first cubesat built at a Native ...current and past,” he told NASA. “So all of our names [are] in space.” While Olson was aware that the project would have a great impact on the ...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
...and Voyager flybys, scientists already knew before the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe descended to its surface in January... exoplanets. She is Chair of the European Space Sciences Committee, of the COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection ...
10 February 2016
Space Science Sound System
...to build a library of instruments based on the sounds of space exploration and space research that help us imagine the worlds of spaceflight and science. With his impromptu “Space Science Sound System”, he remixed sounds of ESA’s technology, research...
19 April 2016
APSS 2016 Was Held in Beijing at the End of February
... interdisciplinary fields. The scope of APSS 2016 covered both theoretical and practical areas of astrophysics and space sciences; Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: theoretical astrophysics, high-energy astrophysics...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
...’s James Webb telescope. In terms of data volume and downlink rates Euclid is therefore the most demanding ESA space science mission to date and for the foreseeable future. The data is stored in files on-board and downlinked during...
