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Venus’ Winds Are Mysteriously Speeding Up
High-altitude winds on neighboring Venus have long been known to be quite speedy, whipping sulfuric-acid-laden clouds around the superheated planet…
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Final Construction Starts for Europe’s 2016 Methane Sniffing Mars Mission
Has life ever existed on Mars? Or anywhere beyond Earth? Answering that question is one of the most profound scientific…
10 Years & Top 10 Discoveries from Marvelous Mars Express
This week marks the 10th anniversary since the launch of the European Space Agencies’ (ESA) Mars Express orbiter from the…
First-Ever Video of an ATV Vehicle Into Orbit!
Yesterday, June 5, the European Space Agency launched their ATV-4 Albert Einstein cargo vessel from their spaceport in French Guiana.…
ESA Launches ‘Albert Einstein’ Cargo Spacecraft to the Space Station
ESA used a little E=mc^2 and launched the Automated Transfer Vehicle-4 (ATV-4) resupply ship, named "Albert Einstein" in honor of…
This Machine Could Help Robots Stick The Landing On Other Worlds
Mission planners really hate it when space robots land off course. We're certainly improving the odds of success these days…
A Mega-Merger of Massive Galaxies Caught in the Act
Even though the spacecraft has exhausted its supply of liquid helium coolant necessary to observe the infrared energy of the…
‘Major Tim’ Peake to Make first British Long-duration Spaceflight
The name is Peake. Timothy Peake. And he's set to follow in the (fictional) footsteps of fellow British citizen James…
Milky Way’s Black Hole Munches On Supercooked Gas
It's a simple menu, but smoking hot. The black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is sucking…
ESA’s Vega Rocket Launches Three Satellites to Space
The second flight of ESA’s newest launch vehicle has successfully sent three different satellites to space. Launching at 02:06 GMT…