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Surprise! Hot Venus has a Cold Upper Atmosphere
Venus' terminator – the transitional region between day and night -- may fuel an unusually cold region in the atmosphere.…
ESA’s Big Cargo Ship Departs from the Space Station
After a three-day delay, the European Space Agency’s “Edoardo Amaldi” Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3) undocked from the aft port of…
Gaia Mission Passes Vital Tests
Caption: Fully integrated Gaia payload module with nearly all of the multilayer insulation fabric installed. Credit: Astrium SAS Earlier this…
Zoom into an Ancient and Fractured Martian Landscape
Peer at this new image of Mars' Ladon Basin and you get some notion of the violence that took place…
Europe’s Plans to Visit the Moon in 2018
The European Space Agency is aiming for the Moon with their Lunar Lander mission, anticipated to arrive on the lunar…
Space Junk: Ideas for Cleaning up Earth Orbit
Caption: Artist's impression of debris in low earth orbit Credit: ESA Space may be big -- vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big…
Awesome Map of Space Agencies Around the World
When you think of space agencies around the world, what comes to mind? Probably NASA, ESA, ISRO and JAXA are…
Euclid and the Geometry of the Dark Universe
Euclid, an exciting new mission to map the geometry, distribution and evolution of dark energy and dark matter has just…
Milky Way to Concordia Base… Come In, Concordia Base…
This stunning photo of the Milky Way was captured from what may be the coldest and most isolated research facility…
Lightning From Space!
[/caption] Here's an amazing shot of a flash of lightning within storm clouds over west Africa, captured from orbit by…