18 December 2019
After delays, ESA’s exoplanet mission launches successfully
... ‘Small’-class mission implemented in the Cosmic Vision 2015–25 programme, the current planning cycle for ESA's space science missions, and the first mission in the programme overall to be launched. As a Small-class mission with a relatively short...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... to worlds orbiting other stars. Investigations using NASA’s Kepler space telescope suggest that perhaps as many as one in five ...View, California. He is also the host of ‘Big Picture Science’, the SETI Institute’s weekly radio show, and is committed ...
January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... a significant setback for many scientists and wealthy space enthusiasts who have ambitious plans of human exploration and...in this test inside a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver. This configuration is how the spacecraft will ...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... lunar exploration programmes, and the Moon as a target for science and exploration is set to become a new focus of international... the development of the Lunar Gateway (also called Deep Space Gateway). Which of these visions will be implemented? This...
14 October 2019
First dedicated commercial smallsat mission to Mars unveiled
... on the international arena. The project will accelerate the development of small satellites and of lightweight space science instrument technology. We want Poland to be ‘the go-to’ country for small interplanetary spacecraft,” said Grzegorz Zwoli...
13 November 2019
Curiosity uncovers oxygen mystery on Mars
.... "The first time we saw that, it was just mind boggling," said Sushil Atreya, professor of climate and space sciences at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Atreya is a co-author of a paper on this topic published on 12 November in the Journal...
