March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
... erupting at the 7 o’clock position off the limb of Jupiter’s moon Europa. The plumes, photographed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, were seen in silhouette as the moon passed in front of Jupiter. NASA/ESA/W Sparks Water vapour...
June 2018
Striding through space
... Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s moonwalk on the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 and helping to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope as a mission specialist on the STS-31 mission in 1990. Author and NASA historian Ken MacTaggart looks back at the...
May 2024
Spaceflight revolution on a shoestring
... back by high transportation cost. Large probes are visiting most objects of interest in the solar system, and space telescopes larger than terrestrial ones are enabling breakthrough discoveries. There are wide environmental benefits. This is not...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... spaceflight, three successful missions to Mars, the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope and a record US$12.4 billion investment of private capital in the space ecosystem, an increase of more than 60 percent year-on-year. Meanwhile, the key...
03 April 2017
Milky Way black hole search begins
... our Galaxy – Sagittarius A*. These two international radio telescopes have now been joined by the Atacama Large Millimetre/... normal – up to 2000 times that of the Hubble Space Telescope – which is crucial for detecting an object that does ...
10 April 2017
Super-Jupiter mass planet found in the galactic bulge
... of the “Campaign 9” of the Kepler 2 mission, also known as the K2C9 program, which involves the recovered Kepler space telescope working in conjunction with ground-based observatories to find possible events suitable for observations on larger...
