Browsing: ESA
The venerable Hubble Space Telescope has seen some things, man. An eye-opening new Hubble image shows the binary star system…
On a recent blazingly hot and humid morning on the French Riviera, three industrial program managers for the European Space…
There’s an old trope about how only certain human-made objects, like the Great Wall of China, can be seen from…
The years-long delay of the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission leaves astrobiologists —- indeed most of humanity —- longing…
It’s hard to imagine dry and dusty Mars as a watery wonderland, but scientists have discovered a fascinating history of…
An American plan to destroy the International Space Station by propelling it to burn through the atmosphere, and then crashing…
Did you see the launch of SpaceX’s Starship earlier this month? If that’s whetted your appetite for more cutting-edge rocket…
The elderly Hubble Space Telescope has been on a rollercoaster ride of technical glitches and fixes—and it’s taken another dive.…
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) ERS-2 earth-observing satellite has spent nearly three decades in orbit, but was decommissioned in 2011…