Following the first successful contact on Tuesday, ESA’s tracking station in Australia again established two-way communication with Russia’s Phobos–Grunt spacecraft on 23 November. The data received…
Read the articleA new video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows huge blasts of plasma, called solar prominences, curling around the sun’s tumultuous magnetic field. The remarkable activity…
Read the articleThree International Space Station crew members safely returned to Earth on Monday, wrapping up nearly six months in space during which NASA and its international partners…
Read the articleImages from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) show sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars at dozens of locations and shifting up to…
Read the articleHere is a stunning, mind-blowing time lapse video of the Earth at night, taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station: The video, taken by astronauts…
Read the articleSensors destined for ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission in 2014 have far exceeded expectations, paving the way for a mission to detect one of the most elusive…
Read the articleA coronal mass ejection that swept past Mercury on Nov. 13th will likely hit Venus later today. Because Venus has no global magnetic field to protect…
Read the articleThe sun rotates at a respectable 2 kilometers per second, which may sound pretty fast. But according to a study to be published in The Astrophysical…
Read the articleA new model for generating a global magnetic field in the ancient moon could help solve a 40-year-old mystery. The Earth’s magnetic field exists because it…
Read the articleNASA’s Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. has captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth. This radar image of asteroid…
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