Satellite Missions/Shuttles

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Himalaya. Karakoram. Hindu Kush. The names of Asia's high mountain ranges conjure up adventure to those living far away, but for more than a billion people, these are the names of their most…

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the presence of electrically-charged molecules in space shaped like soccer balls, shedding light on the mysterious contents of the interstellar…

Kuiper Belt object orientations support streaming instability hypothesisCredit: HST/StSci/SwRI/Simon Porter SAN ANTONIO -- June 25, 2019 -- A Southwest Research Institute-led team studied the orientation of distant solar system bodies…

Credit: (Graphic courtesy of NASA/Ball Aerospace) WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers designed and built two science payloads that went up with SpaceX's Falcon 9 Heavy rocket launch on June 25. The Small…

The Graphene Flagship participates in a sounding-rocket launch in collaboration with the European Space Agency to test the printing of graphene devices in space.Credit: Christophe Minetti, ULB Graphene Flagship partners,…

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS One of the great attractions of the island of Santorini, in Greece, lies in its spectacular volcanic landscape, which also contains places similar to those of Mars. A team of European and U.S. scientists has…

Credit: NASA, ESA and F. Bauer This image shows an irregular galaxy named IC 10, a member of the Local Group -- a collection of over 50 galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood that includes the Milky Way. IC 10 is a remarkable object. It is…

Credit: Graphic courtesy of PUNCH Team/Southwest Research Institute WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers partnered with Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to shine a light on the impact of the solar atmosphere…

GFZ researcher wins $20,000 prize in ideas competition to improve the global magnetic field model GFZ scientist Jürgen Matzka is the winner of the MagQuest competition to improve models of the Earth's magnetic field (World Magnetic Model…

The Comet Interceptor space mission led by UCL has been selected as the first €150M mission for the European Space Agency's new fast-class mission in its Cosmic Vision Programme, intended to launch in 2028 with the UCL-led ARIEL mission.…