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Look at How Much the Sun Has Changed in Just Two Years
The solar cycle has been reasonably well understood since 1843 when Samuel Schwabe spent 17 years observing the variation of…
Juice is Fully Deployed. It’s Now in its Final Form, Ready to Meet Jupiter’s Moons in 2031
Launched on April 14, 2023, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice; formerly known as JUICE) spacecraft…
Juice Looks Back at Earth During Its Space Odyssey to Jupiter’s Moons
As the European Space Agency's Juice spacecraft headed out on an eight-year trip to Jupiter's icy moons, it turned back…
Will Titan finally answer, ‘Are we alone?’
We recently examined how and why Jupiter’s moon, Europa, could answer the longstanding question: Are we alone? While this small…
ESA Gives Green Light on its Comet Interceptor Mission
Comets, with their long, beautiful, bright tails of ice, are some of the most spectacular sightings in the night sky.…
ESA Is Going To Spend $102 Million To Remove a Single Piece of Space Junk
How much would you be willing to spend to remove a piece of space debris? Does $102 million sound like…
Gaia has Already Given Us 5 New Insights Into the Milky Way
The European Space Agency launched the Gaia mission in 2013. The mission's overall goal was to discover the history of…
This Laser Powered Rover Could Stay in the Shadows on the Moon and Continue to Explore
The craters on the Moon's poles are in permanent shadow. But they're also intriguing locations, due to deposits of water…
Because of Coronavirus Lockdowns, Europe is Having the Same Drop in Pollution that we Saw in China
The pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus is creating all kinds of chaos for human society. But for the dear…
New Image Shows the Rugged Landscape of Comet 67P
Thanks to an amateur astronomer, the latest image to come from the Rosetta mission provides of glimpse of the surface…