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Video: 00:03:56 In this week's edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 missiontakes us over Darmstadt, Germany, home to ESA's European Space Operations Centre, See also Darmstadt, Germanyto d...

On 13 November Moa Persson, Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) and Umeå University, will defend her doctoral thesis. Her thesis shows that only a small part of the historical water content on Venus has been lost t...

A longtime Virgin Galactic executive will return to Australia to take over the country's young space agency, the Australian government announced Nov. 13. SpaceNews

The European Space Agency (ESA) signed contracts for three pairs of satellites for the agency's Earth-observing Copernicus program on Nov. 13 with a total award value of more than 1.3 billion euros ($1.54 billion). Space...

A new study looks at how neutron stars can merge to create a black hole. The post Do neutron star collisions produce black holes? appeared first on Universe Today.

In 2018, a new aurora-like discovery struck the world. From 2015 to 2016, citizen scientists reported 30 instances of a purple ribbon in the sky, with a green picket fence structure underneath. Now named STEVE, or Strong...

The planned launch of a U.S. spy satellite this afternoon (Nov. 13) could kick off a spaceflight binge, if we're lucky.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced that he has received mixed results from tests meant to diagnose infections of the novel coronavirus.

Nickelodeon's new family-friendly sci-fi series finds untrained kids aboard a spaceship that accidentally launches on a mission to investigate an asteroid passing Earth.

NASA is targeting 12:17 p.m. EST (9:17 a.m. PST) Saturday, Nov. 21, for the launch of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, the first of two identical satellites to head into Earth orbit five years apart to continue...

The Expedition 64 crew is getting ready to welcome four new crew members to the International Space Station this weekend....

Week in images: 09-13 November 2020 Discover our week through the lens

Future human missions to Mars depend on field research in an environment similar to that of Mars. It will enable the evaluation of operational concepts and optimization of strategies. The goals and results of the AMADEE-...

A relic of the early days of spaceflight has likely come back to pay a brief visit to its planet of origin, according to months of observations of a near-Earth object dubbed 2020 SO.

The cast of Nickelodeon's "The Astronauts" needed to learn how to act while in space. Fortunately, unlike the characters they play, they had a real astronaut to help them get ready.

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This burst of color shows a fascinating discovery: a galaxy cluster acting as a cosmic furnace. The cluster is heating the material within to hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius--well over 25 times hotter than the co...

A long time ago--roughly 4.5 billion years--our sun and solar system formed over the short time span of 200,000 years. That is the conclusion of a group of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists after l...

Scientists have known for some time that galaxies can grow by the merging of smaller galaxies, but the ancestry of our own Milky Way galaxy has been a long-standing mystery. Now, an international team of astrophysicists ...

ESA's exoplanet mission Ariel, scheduled for launch in 2029, has moved from study to implementation phase, following which an industrial contractor will be selected to build the spacecraft.

Earth has captured a tiny object from its orbit around the sun and will keep it as a temporary satellite for a few months before it escapes back to a solar orbit. But the object is likely not an asteroid; it's probably t...