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It appears that Europe's Schiaparelli Mars lander crashed-landed on the planet's surface and may have exploded. The post Schiaparelli is Gone. Smashed on the surface of Mars appeared first on Universe Today.

The White House announced a new initiative Oct. 21 to promote the development of small satellites, collecting under one roof a number of efforts, some of which started months ago. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified new markings on the surface of the Red Planet that are believed to be related to ESA's ExoMars Schiaparelli entry, descent and landing technology demonstrator module.

A tiny lander despatched to Mars on a trial run had crashed and possibly exploded on the Red Planet, mission control said Friday, confirming Europe's second failed attempt to reach the alien surface.

European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli spacecraft crashed and possibly exploded --

A new class of stellar objects could be causing ultra-bright repeating outbursts from old, quiescent galaxies --

Europe's experimental Mars probe hit the right spot--but at the wrong speed--and may have ended up in a fiery ball of rocket fuel when it struck the surface, scientists said Friday.

A largely unrecognized field called photonics may provide solutions to some of NASA's most pressing challenges in future spaceflight.

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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified new markings on the surface of the Red Planet that are believed to be related to ESA's ExoMars Schiaparelli entry, descent and landing technology demonstrator module.

A group of citizen scientists and professional astronomers, including Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné, joined forces to discover an unusual hunting ground for exoplanets. They found a star surrounded by the oldest known circu...

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A new study reveals that Rosetta's Comet likely spent billions of years chilling in the Kuiper Belt before chance interactions with Neptune and Jupiter wrangled it into the inner Solar System. The post Astronomers Think ...

Five years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three astronomers for their discovery, in the late 1990s, that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace.

Last week, President Obama wrote about the progress we as a Nation have made over the past 8 years to ensure our space program continues to inspire generations of students and serve as a leading source of innovation in o...

Part of Nepal including its capital city, Kathmandu, and the Himalayan foothills are pictured in this satellite image. Vegetation appears red in this false-colour image, while waterways and buildings appear light green a...

Via a NASA-led citizen science project, eight people with no formal training in astrophysics helped discover what could be a fruitful new place to search for planets outside our solar system - a large disk of gas and dus...

Jupiter appears to be flashing a big smile at the solar system, in an image created using data from NASA's Juno probe.

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and crew practise for the final Soyuz spacecraft exams before launch on 16 November

Despite the likely loss of its Schiaparelli lander, the Trace Gas Orbiter is gearing up for spectacular science at Mars --

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