Space Weather Reports for Venus
For the first time, ESA is providing regular space-weather reports for a spacecraft orbiting another planet. When your spacecraft is surfing deep into the atmosphere of…
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Rare Example of a Type IA Supernova Explosion
Supernovas are often thought of as the tremendous explosions that mark the ends of massive stars’ lives. While this is true, not all supernovas occur in…
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Colourful View of the Universe Unveiled by Hubble
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have captured the most comprehensive picture ever assembled of the evolving Universe – and one of the most colourful. The…
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“The Avengers” Exhibit Demos NASA Science and Tech
A new exhibit steeped in the cinematic world of “The Avengers” provides a super-powered dose of science and technology from NASA. The unique, interactive educational display…
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ESA Solar Orbiter Heat-Shield Passes Test
ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission has undergone its latest major test: its protective shield has been subjected to concentrated sunlight to prove it can cope with the…
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Mega-Earth Breaks the Rules
Astronomers have discovered a rocky planet that weighs 17 times as much as Earth and is more than twice as large in size. This discovery has…
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NASA’s ‘Flying Saucer’ Ready for Test Flight
NASA’s flying saucer-shaped test vehicle is ready to take to the skies from the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, for its first…
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This new commercial is for my LunarPhase Pro software. If you’ve visited the site in recent days, you may have spotted a smaller version of it…
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Meteor Alert This Weekend
This weekend, Earth will pass through a stream of debris from Comet 209P/LINEAR. If forecasters are correct, the encounter could produce an outburst of bright meteors…
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Big New Crater Discovered on Mars
Researchers have discovered on the Red Planet the largest fresh meteor-impact crater ever firmly documented with before-and-after images. The images were captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance…
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