How to Follow and Watch Rosetta’s Grand Finale
Rosetta is set to complete its historic mission in a controlled descent to the surface of its comet on 30 September, with the end of mission…
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ESA Hangout: Getting Ready for Rosetta’s Grand Finale
ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft is set to complete its incredible mission in a controlled descent to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 30 September. Mission experts joined…
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Studying Meteorites
Clockwise from top: ESA’s Matthias Maurer, Lina Tomelleri, Giorgio Tomelleri, Anna Maria Fioretti from the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources (IGG), an institute of National…
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A Taster of Gaia’s Sky – Watch the Media Briefing
Launched in December 2013, Gaia is destined to create the most accurate map yet of the Milky Way. By making accurate measurements of the positions and…
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USS Enterprise Spotted in Deep Space
Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the TV series “Star Trek,” which first aired September 8th,1966, a new infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space…
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Linear Dunes Found on Titan
New scenes from a frigid alien landscape are coming to light in recent radar images of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Cassini obtained…
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The Philae Lander Has Been Found!
Less than a month before the end of the mission, Rosetta’s high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.…
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2018 Mars InSight Mission Approved by NASA
NASA is moving forward with a spring 2018 launch of its InSight mission to study the deep interior of Mars, following final approval this week by…
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An Ancient Star, New Star or Protostar?
At the centre of this image, captured by ESA’s Herschel space observatory, is a truly peculiar cosmic object: a star named IRAS 19312+1950. Located over 12,000 light-years…
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NASA Considers Futuristic Space Exploration Concepts
Proposals Include Wind-Powered Automatons and Icy Volcano Divers Each year, NASA funds a handful of futuristic concepts to push forward the boundaries of space exploration. These…
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