Having eyes in the sky is useful for a variety of activities. Everything from farming to military operations has benefited from the boom in drone usage, as the small aircraft track the progress of crop disease, enemy movements, or how awesome a professor skier looks going down a mountain. Now the benefits of aerial surveillance has spread to other worlds as Perseverance is starting to map out its path with help from Ingenuity.
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NASA revives ailing Hubble Space Telescope with switch to backup computer
The Hubble Space Telescope has powered on once again! NASA was able to turn the telescope back on after successfully switching to a backup computer on the telescope following weeks of computer problems.
NASA celebrates New Horizons' historic Pluto flyby in 2015 with awesome new videos
NASA has released new visualisations of the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon Charon to commemorate the first-ever up close exploration of the distant worlds.
Rescuing Integral: No thrust? No problem
A year ago tomorrow, a failure on the Integral spacecraft meant it fired its thrusters for likely the last time. In the days since, the spacecraft in Earth orbit has continued to shed light on the violent gamma ray Universe, and it should soon be working even more efficiently than before, as mission control teams implement an ingenious new way to control the 18-year-old spacecraft.
Satellites map floods in western Europe
Image: Record rainfall has caused swollen rivers to burst their banks and wash away homes and other buildings in western Europe. Data from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission are being used to map flooded areas to help relief efforts.
Cosmic fireworks in nearby galaxies shine light on star formation
The brilliant fireworks of 90 nearby galaxies shine new light on how stars are born.
'Alien burp' may have been detected on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover
Methane tends to only be made by biological life, so scientists are wondering if the source is from alien microbes.
Astronauts are growing chile peppers in space in spicy first
Chile peppers are growing on the International Space Station as part of a new experiment that aims to expand the range of space-grown foods ahead of a possible future mission to Mars.
Can we solve the black hole information paradox with 'photon spheres'?
Theories that attempt to resolve the so-called black hole information paradox predict that black holes are much more complicated than general relativity suggests.
Space weather is difficult to predict — with only an hour to prevent disasters on Earth
Recent developments at the forefront of astronomy allow us to observe that planets orbiting other stars have weather.
ERS: 30 years of outstanding achievements
ESA’s first Earth observation mission dedicated to understanding our planet, the European Remote Sensing satellite (ERS-1), was launched into orbit on 17 July 1991 – almost 30 years ago today. At the time of its launch, the ERS satellite was one of the most sophisticated spacecraft ever developed and launched by Europe, paving the way for satellite technology in the areas of atmosphere, land, ocean and ice monitoring. Today, we look back at some of the mission’s key accomplishments.
Marvel streaming guide: Where to watch the Marvel movies and TV shows online
Venus shines in the western twilight as Mars sinks away. Jupiter and Saturn rise in late dusk. And after dark, Scorpius shows off at its very best in the south.
Greenhouses Probably won’t Work on Mars Because of Cosmic Radiation. Even the Plants Will Have to Live Underground
Week in images: 12 - 16 July 2021
Getting Started in Deep-Sky Astrophotography
Lima, the capital and largest city of Peru, is featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image.
Beating the Heat in Astrophotography
Keeping your camera cool is an essential element to obtaining good clean images in astrophotography.
Blue Origin reveals fourth crew member for Bezos spaceflight
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Why so much solar activity? Sun may be outpacing predictions.
Astronomers investigate the spiral arms of a young star's disk and find evidence of a disk so massive that it could collapse to form planets.
NASA astronaut comes home to Houston after record-setting 355-day space mission
China's Zhurong Mars rover has given us nice, up-close looks at some of the hardware that helped it land safely on the Red Planet two months ago.
Here's how a French astronaut celebrated Bastille Day 2021 in space
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet pulled out all the stops in orbit for a Bastille Day on the International Space Station.
New Shepard: Rocket for space tourism
New Shepard is a rocket manufactured by Blue Origin for space tourism. It is designed to take up to six passengers into suborbital space inside of a crew capsule.
