The Planck space telescope, which is surveying the entire sky in four massive sweeps, has nearly finished its first scan. Rotating in orbit, Planck takes data of the sky in strips, almost the reverse ...
The sharpest images yet taken by the Mars Express spacecraft of Marsâ tiny moon Phobos reveal features as small as 14.5 feet across, the European Space Agency announced March 15. Some of the new ...
The ingredients for life as we know it have been found in the Orion Nebula. By finely separating the spectrum of incoming light, astronomers are able to detect the chemical fingerprints of molecules ...
The European Space Agency's Mars Express yesterday skimmed past Martian moon Phobos at a distance of just 67km - the closest any manmade object has ever approached the "enigmatic" body. The flyby was ...
It weighs almost a tonne, has cost more than $2bn and, in 2013, it will be lowered on to the surface of Mars with a landing system that has never been tried before. The Mars Science Laboratory will ...