ESA has released a video detailing theintricate orbit traveled by Rosetta over the past two years as theprobe explored the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Thevisualization was constructed from ...

The first of two ARTEMIS (“Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon’s Interaction with the Sun”) spacecraft is now in its lunar orbit. On June 22, ARTEMIS P1 began firing ...

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Since the launch of the Sputnik 1 in 1957, more than 6,600 satellites have gone into orbit, used for everything from navigation systems to environmental monitoring to military purposes. But we’re ...

In order to celebrate the release of it's asteroid toolkit, the European Space Agency (ESA) has issued a challenge to find a mystery asteroid. The Christmas asteroid poses no threat to Earth, but the ...

Our planet has a space junk problem. In 1957, Russian scientists launched the tiny satellite Sputnik, whose beeping signal would mark the start of the Space Race, provoking Americans to launch ...