Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, from Queen’s University Belfast, has recently returned from ground control of ESA’s Hera mission.
The Capital Region got quite a show in 2024, thanks to a melange of natural forces and phenomena. It was a year that lit up ...
BepiColombo, a joint mission by ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, will make its sixth flyby of Mercury in January 2025. This maneuver will help the spacecraft enter orbit around ...
From the mysterious Planet Nine to the prospect of a "human-caused meteor shower," space and physics editor Brandon Specktor ...
Asteroid-detecting AI algorithms have already identified 27,000 new pieces of space debris, bringing the known number to 1.3 ...
on lunar soil composition and water-splitting processes will be conducted to assess the potential for generating oxygen and hydrogen. Advanced navigation systems and autonomous operation technologies ...
NASA has issued an alert regarding a 31-foot-wide asteroid named 2024 YA5, roughly the size of a bus, which is set to make a ...
The shower often produces bright fireballs, which originates from an asteroid called 2003 EH1. Those meteors appear in all ...
Scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from. But two populations of so-called dark comets may tell ...
In Central California, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and Yosemite National Park are good bets for seeing celestial ...
When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited the giant asteroid Vesta, it discovered intriguing channels on the rocky surface, ...