NASA’s Carruthers mission will film Earth’s elusive exosphere to understand space weather, atmospheric escape, and planetary habitability. A NASA mission aims to photograph a feature of Earth that is ...
The moon and distant Earth seen from Earth-moon Lagrange point 2 by the Queqiao relay satellite. Credit: Zhejiang University HELSINKI — China will launch its Queqiao-2 communications relay satellite ...
The three missions launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket the morning of September 24. NASA A SpaceX launch early Wednesday morning sent a trio of spacecraft toward a destination almost one million ...
Satellites and instruments placed at Lagrange points remain in a stable position because the gravitational forces from the Earth and sun balance each other, requiring only minimal energy for ...
Two micro-satellites originally launched into Earth’s orbit in 2007 by NASA have been redirected by University of California, Berkeley, scientists toward new orbits around the Moon, extending study of ...
NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, a groundbreaking mission, is set to provide new insights into the outermost layer of ...
The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is being launched later this month to study the outer reaches of the heliosphere which defines where our solar system ends and interstellar space ...
India’s Aditya-L1 probe will arrive in a few days at a patch of space between Earth and the sun, almost a million miles away. The location is remote yet isn’t very lonely. Four active spacecraft are ...