It is expected that the MAVEN, Mars’ orbiter will enter the Mars’ atmosphere soon, after travelling 10 months through space. Then, its real mission of gathering information from Mars can start.
The scientists from ESA continue to study the comet in order to prepare Rosetta orbiter for landing in november 2014. They gather the data from Rosetta that enable them to to choose the right...
A pre-cursor to any manned mission to the Moon is to be able to return an unmanned lunar probe back to Earth As its next step in space exploration, China is preparing an orbiter for...
What can we learn from the Rosetta adventure? Composed of an orbiter and lander, Rosetta’s objectives since arriving at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in August 2014 are to study the celestial object up close in unprecedented detail,...
If Aliens exist where do they live and how do they live? Scientists say a world that’s 490 light-years away qualifies as the first confirmed Earth-sized exoplanet that could sustain life as we know...
A Soyuz rocket launched Europe’s fifth and six Galileo satellites from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on the 22nd August.These new satellites are intended to join four Galileo satellites already in orbit, launched in...
More on Rosetta and how it will land on comet 67P. This documentary is from early this year before the spacecraft was woken up for the final leg of its journey to the comet.
The Rosetta spacecraft, launched 10 years ago by ESA, became the first to orbit a comet. Part of the mission is to land a probe onto the surface around November time.
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) 13-ton Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) cargo craft launched from ESA’s Arianespace launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, July 29, beginning a two-week journey to the International Space Station to...
NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover was reportedly carrying 377 strains of 65 different bacteria species when it was launched. So the question remains if these bacteria survived takeoff and the harsh space environment could they...
NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2)mission, is scheduled to launch on July 1st from Vandenberg AFB, California. The satellite will make precise measurements of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere.This is NASA’s first satellite mission...
The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is a Solar Terrestrial Probes mission comprising four identically instrumented spacecraft that will use Earth’s magnetosphere as a laboratory to study the microphysics of three fundamental plasma processes: magnetic...
Over ten years ago, on 14 January 2004, Mars Express took its very first images of Mars in colour and in 3D. To mark the occasion, the team produced a fly-through movie of the ancient...
Boeing is known for making airplanes, both commercial and fighter, but they actually have a long history in space. They’ve been a contractor for NASA on every manned space mission ever flown. A new...
The Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, will study how the sun and the Earth’s magnetic fields connect and disconnect, an explosive process that can accelerate particles through space to nearly the speed of light. This...
This video gives you an inside look at NASA’s next steps in deep space exploration — from the space station, to an asteroid and on to the human exploration of Mars.
In this video we look back at the past 50 years of space in Europe; five decades of discovery, drama and innovation that have had a profound impact on how we see ourselves and our...
