Euclid studies Milky Way center, supports future Roman observations
Introduction: In this article, I’ll embark on an exciting journey through the cosmos as we delve into the remarkable endeavors of space missions that have ventured to the outer planets of our solar system. These distant and enigmatic giants—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—have captured the curiosity of scientists and space enthusiasts alike. Humanity’s insatiable…
Enabling & Support 24/06/2026 2546 views 53 likes At 15:24 CEST on 15 June 2026, a faint blue glow in space was switched off for the last time. After powering BepiColombo’s eight-year journey across the inner Solar System, the spacecraft’s solar electric propulsion (SEP) system completed its final thrust arc, marking the end of BepiColombo’s long cruise phase and the beginning of its arrival at Mercury. Since…
Week of January 18 The Orion spacecraft, consisting of the crew module, crew module adapter, and service module, that will fly four astronauts to the Moon on the Artemis II mission in the spring of 2025 is considerably advanced over its Artemis I sibling. The differences of the Artemis I and Artemis II Orion spacecraft…
On June 16, astronauts and cosmonauts gathered at Space Center Houston to share stories from their missions aboard the International Space Station and recognize the teamwork and people on the ground that made their missions possible. The Expedition 73 Welcome Home Ceremony brought together members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10, Soyuz MS-27, and NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 missions….
What should the aftermath of an exploding star look like? You would expect a vast cloud of shattered debris and hot gas, blazing at first and then slowly, steadily cooling over thousands of years. So when astronomers turned NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory on a nearby galaxy, they were surprised to find dozens of these supposed…
Back to Article List Today in the history of astronomy, an asteroid flattens 830 square miles of Siberian forest. The Tunguska impact flattened hundreds of miles of forest and devastated local wildlife, but the remoteness of the region kept it from being a mass casuality event. Credit: Leonid Kulik/Wikimedia An enormous explosion occurred approximately 3…