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Comet Impacts Could Have Brought the Raw Ingredients for Life to Europa’s Ocean
Jupiter is the most-visited planet in the Solar System, thanks largely to NASA. It all started with Pioneer 10 and 11, followed by Voyager 1 and 2. Those were all flyby missions, and it wasn’t until 1996 that the Galileo spacecraft became the first to orbit the gas giant and even send a probe into its atmosphere. Then in 2016, the Juno spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter and is still there today.
First 'Barbie' teaser trailer parodies Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'
Warner Bros. releases the first "Barbie" trailer in a nod to Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Russian space debris forces space station to dodge, cancels US spacewalk
A piece of Russian space junk forced NASA to call off a spacewalk and the International Space Station to dodge out of the way on Wednesday (Dec. 21).
There's a new trailer for the sci-fi movie '65' and it looks fantastic
A new trailer for 65, a sci-fi action movie featuring dinosaurs where the past meets the future, is available to watch and it looks epic.
The sun is waking up, and the world's largest solar telescope is watching
With the world's largest solar telescope now conducting formal observations, scientists are eager to watch the sun's increasing activity and better understand the threats of space weather.
Young ESA team prepare Ariane 6 passenger
Image: Young ESA team prepare Ariane 6 passenger
Winter solstice 2022 brings the longest night of the year to Northern Hemisphere
The winter solstice is today (Dec. 21), marking the official start of astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest day of the year.
8 ways the James Webb Space Telescope is revolutionizing astronomy
One year after its launch, the flagship space telescope is already making discoveries that are transforming our knowledge of the universe, both near and far.
Snowy Alps
Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-3 image shows the wide-coverage of snowfall in the Alps, which hopefully bodes well for the coming year.
A wreath of star formation
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Webb's picture of the month December is dominated by NGC 7469, a luminous, face-on spiral galaxy approximately 90 000 light-years in diameter that lies roughly 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.
ESA to invite companies to connect with the Moon
Space companies in Europe that could create telecommunications and navigation services for missions to the Moon will be invited to bid for the work, following the completion of two feasibility studies.
Juice launch kit
Download this launch kit (in English, other languages below) to learn more about the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission and its science goals.
Two Pléiades Neo Earth-imaging satellites lost in failure of Europe’s Vega C rocket
Illustration of the Vega C rocket with its Zefiro 40 second stage firing. Credit: Arianespace
The final two spacecraft in Airbus’s four-satellite, 600 million-euro commercial Pléiades Neo Earth observation fleet crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after launch from French Guiana Tuesday night, falling victim to a failure of a European Vega C rocket.
Europe's Vega C rocket fails on 2nd-ever mission, 2 satellites lost
Europe's Vega C rocket failed during its second-ever mission on Tuesday night (Dec. 20), which was supposed to loft two satellites for Airbus' Pléiades Neo Earth-imaging constellation.
Live coverage: Vega C rocket set for operational debut
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Vega C rocket with the Pléiades Neo 5 and 6 commercial Earth observation satellites for Airbus. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.
Two potentially habitable Earth-like worlds orbit a star in our cosmic backyard
Astronomers have discovered two Earth-like exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf near our solar system that orbit their star with respective 'years' lasting just 10 and 21 days.
Watch 2 NASA astronauts conduct spacewalk early Wednesday
Two NASA astronauts will conduct a spacewalk early Wednesday (Dec. 21) to install new solar arrays on the International Space Station, and you can watch it live.
Astronomers Spot Stars in the Most Distant Galaxies for the First Time
Since it launched on December 25th, 2021 (quite the Christmas present!), the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken the sharpest and most detailed images of the Universe, surpassing even its predecessor, the venerable Hubble Space Telescope! But what is especially exciting are the kinds of observations we can look forward to, where the JWST will use its advanced capabilities to address some of the most pressing cosmological mysteries. For instance, there’s the problem presented by high-redshift supermassive black holes (SMBHs) or brightly-shining quasars that existed during the first billion years of the Universe.
