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Can China enter the international space family?

[/caption] It has often been called a ‘100 billion boondoggle’ - yet it is also unquestionably one of the most…

14 years ago

Great View! January 4 Solar Eclipse As Seen From Space

Here’s a unique view of the January 4 partial solar eclipse: ESA’s sun-watching microsatellite Proba-2 captured the conjunction of the…

14 years ago

Highlights of 2010 from the European Space Agency

It has been another great year in space, and the European Space Agency has put together a video highlight reel…

14 years ago

Cassini Instruments Offline Until Nov. 24

[/caption] NASA announced that the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn will have its suite of scientific cameras offline until…

14 years ago

Rosetta Uncovers a Thick, Dusty Blanket on Lutetia

[/caption] If you think that asteroids are boring, unchanging rocks floating in space waiting only to crop up in bad…

14 years ago

Planck, XMM Newton Find New Galaxy Supercluster

[/caption] Scanning the sky in microwaves, the Planck mission has obtained its very first images of galaxy clusters, and found…

14 years ago

Herschel Finds Water Around a Carbon Star

[/caption] There’s something strange going on around the red giant star CW Leonis (a.k.a. IRC+10216). Deep within the star’s carbon-rich…

14 years ago

Hubble, Renewed, Reinvigorated, Raring to Go

Note: To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, for ten days, Universe Today has featured highlights from…

15 years ago

Hubble’s Late Teen Years: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times

[/caption] Note: To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, for ten days, Universe Today will feature highlights…

15 years ago

Hubble Turns Sixteen, and Just Keeps on Working

[/caption] Note: To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, for ten days, Universe Today will feature highlights…

15 years ago