22 December 2017
Where is NASA going next?
... Solar System mission. The two finalists battling it out for the chance to explore their destination of choice, are the proposed Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return (CAESAR) mission or Dragonfly. A launch date of the mid-2020s is planned...
15 May 2019
New funding under fire for Moon 2024 Artemis mission
... College Access Network. If some of its surplus is shifted elsewhere, the shortfall could occur sooner. Even space explorers have weighed in on the news about reallocating funds to support a Moon mission, as former NASA astronaut Jose Hernandez...
04 December 2020
Asteroid sample from Hayabusa2 to land on Earth 6 December
... of the signal source,” say the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). If for some unforeseen reason the... to plan, Yuichi Tsuda, project manager at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), said at a recent briefing. “We trained ourselves...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
At 3:37 am on February 28, 2014, the H-IIA launch vehicle blasted off in a huge fireball. All the launch spectators, including NASA engineers, scientists and local residents, cheered as the engines ignited. The bright white flare slowly rose in the ...
26 July 2016
Will PIPER be successful in confirming Inflation Theory?
... of two enormous black holes. Now however, it is the turn of another instrument, PIPER, the Primordial Inflation Polarization ExploreR, to search the skies for the signature of primordial gravity waves, but this time, by those produced in the...
29 November 2017
Deepest spectroscopic survey completed of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
... the years of research already conducted into the HUDF, with the help of MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers have produced a groundbreaking dataset that has already resulted in 10 science...
