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Nothing is stationary. As you are reading this, the Earth revolves around its own axis; it orbits the sun, the sun moves through space at a staggering 792,000 kilometers per hour around the galacti…
Wouldn't you just love to be up there in person?
NASA launched the Voyager spacecraft
Cassini is one of the most ambitious efforts in planetary space exploration. A joint endeavour of NASA, ESA and the Italian space agency, Cassini is a sophisticated spacecraft exploring the Saturnian system since 2004.
Back in the time when the United States and the USSR were involved in a space race, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower started a space program, to remain c
Despite repeated attempts to communicate, the search extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to produce anything substantive.
MessageToEagle.com – Something strange has happened to one of Europe’s satellites while it was orbiting 22,369 miles (36,000 kilometers) above the US and Mexico. On June 17, Satellite Control in Luxembourg tried to establish contact with its satellite AMC-9, but received no response. Soon operators watched as their satellite started to drift and then broke apart. …
Pulsars can be used study time, space, and more. They may even hold the key to navigation outside of our solar system.
The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research.
Our little corner of the Milky Way is a pretty incredible place.
The Earth's magnetic field acts like a giant instrument playing magnetic music.
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Launched in 1997, the Cassini-Huygens mission has reshaped scientific understanding of the solar system’s most exotic planet and its mysterious moons.
These latest snaps were taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its seventh science flyby over Jupiter.
Our civilization's relatively short technological lifespan may be shared throughout the universe — which doesn't bode well for finding advanced aliens.
NASA's response is the best.
As the Voyager mission is winding down, so, too, are the careers of the aging explorers who expanded our sense of home in the galaxy.
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Sci-fi movies are often times criticized when explosions in the void make noise. I am sure you have heard the old saying, “in space, no one can hear you scream.” People think that because there is no air there is no sound, but certain videos released by NASA tell a different story. Space is a…
China is apparently planning to land humans on the Moon, according to a couple of comments made this week.
Last summer, astronomer Michael Summer wrote that, despite a relatively low profile, NASA and its international partners have been “living Carl Sagan’s dream for space exploration.” Summers’ catalogue of discoveries and groundbreaking experiments—such as Scott Kelly’s yearlong stay aboard the International Space Station—speaks for itself.
After three years of collecting data, the highest resolution map of Earth’s lithospheric magnetic field from space to date has been released. The dataset combines measurements from ESA’s Swarm satellites with historical data from the German CHAMP satellite using a new modelling technique …
A massive chart of humankind’s 113 spacecraft so far and where they’ve gone.
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