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CHEOPS space telescope takes its first pictures
The tension was high: In front of a large screen at the house near Madrid where members of the Consortium participating in the commissioning of the satellite live, as well...
Fast radio burst with steady 16-day cycle observed
A large team of space scientists working in Canada has found evidence of a fast radio burst with a steady 16-day cycle. The team has published a paper describing their...
Supercharged light pulverises asteroids, study finds
The majority of stars in the universe will become luminous enough to blast surrounding asteroids into successively smaller fragments using their light alone, according to a University of Warwick astronomer.
Solar Orbiter blasts off to capture 1st look at sun's poles
Europe and NASA's Solar Orbiter rocketed into space Sunday night on an unprecedented mission to capture the first pictures of the sun's elusive poles.
Surfing space dust bunnies spawn interplanetary magnetic fields
A 40-year-old enigma about ghostly magnetic fields in interplanetary space may have finally been solved by new data from a constellation of 12 satellites in near-Earth space.
The cosmic confusion of the microwave background
Roughly 380,000 years after the Big Bang, about 13.7 billion years ago, matter (mostly hydrogen) cooled enough for neutral atoms to form, and light was able to traverse space freely....
Qarman CubeSat: falling into a fireball
This Wednesday 12 February, ESA’s latest mission will enter the vacuum of space, not aboard a rocket but by being released from the International Space Station. The first task of...
Meet "Spikey," a Possible Pair of Merging Supermassive Black Holes
A flare predicted for this spring could confirm the object is indeed two monstrous black holes coming together -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Our sun will never look the same again thanks to two solar probes and one giant telescope
It's always sunny for heliophysicists, but especially so now.
'Planetary simulator' could help identify habitable alien worlds
Say what you will about winter's chill and summer's burn — Earth's climate is pretty great for life as we know it.
Liftoff for Solar Orbiter, ESA’s mission to face the Sun up close
ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission lifted off on an Atlas V 411 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 05:03 CET on 10 February on its mission to study the Sun from new...
ESA's next Sun mission will be shadow-casting pair
After Solar Orbiter, ESA’s next mission observing the Sun will not be one spacecraft but two: the double satellites making up Proba-3 will fly in formation to cast an artificial...
Space station to forge ultra-fast connections
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station plan to install a high-speed radio link to enable almost real-time connections with Earth.The upgrade to the ESA Columbus laboratory will relay data from...
Solar Orbiter blasts off to capture 1st look at sun's poles
Europe and NASA's Solar Orbiter rocketed into space Sunday night on an unprecedented mission to capture the first pictures of the sun's elusive poles.
Solar Orbiter Launch Takes Solar Science to New Heights
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Solar Orbiter launch replay
Video: 00:00:00 Watch a replay of the launch of Solar Orbiter, ESA’s new Sun-exploring spacecraft, which will look at our parent star from a completely new perspective. The satellite was lofted...
Coming soon: The first pictures of the sun's north and south poles
A new spacecraft is about to blast off for the sun, where it will capture the first-ever images of the north and south poles.
Liftoff for Solar Orbiter, ESA’s mission to face the Sun up close
ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission lifted off on an Atlas V 411 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 05:03 CET on 10 February on its mission to study the Sun from new...
Solar probe embarks on unprecedented mission to map sun's polar regions
A new probe built by NASA and the European Space Agency set off on a blazing hot journey to the sun on Sunday to take the first close-up look at...
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will be the first spacecraft to study the sun’s polar zones
A new sungazing spacecraft has launched on a mission to chart the sun’s unexplored polar regions and to understand how our star creates and controls the vast bubble of plasma that envelops...
Solar Orbiter launches on historic mission to study the sun's poles
The European-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft is officially on its way to the sun.
NASA, Europe space agency launch Solar Orbiter mission
One of the most advanced science missions to study the sun in history -- the Solar Orbiter -- was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Florida on Sunday night.
Watch live: NASA, Europe space agency plan Sunday night launch for solar probe
A rocket launch is planned for 11:03 p.m. EST Sunday in Florida for the Solar Orbiter science mission to study the sun's polar regions.
Northrop Grumman aborts Cygnus cargo launch to space station
The launch was delayed due to off-nominal data from ground-support equipment.
Northrop postpones Antares rocket launch in Virginia on Sunday
Northrop Grumman postponed a cargo capsule launch to the International Space Station from Virginia at 5:44 p.m. EST Sunday.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wins 2020 Daytona 500 pole
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will start on the front row after winning the pole Sunday for the season-opening Daytona 500 next week at Daytona International Speedway.