Space Exploration News

Feb 6, 2012 by News Staff

ESA’s Mars Express has returned a stunning close-up of the Syrtis Major region on Mars. Part of the Syrtis Major region on Mars (ESA / DLR / FU Berlin / G. Neukum) Syrtis Major, discovered in 1659 by Christaan Huygens, is a province on Mars dating back billions of years. This region can be spotted from Earth with relatively small telescopes – the near-circular dark area on the planet stretches over 1300 x 1500 km. Once thought to be a sea of...

Jan 30, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

In the interview with Sci-News.com, Dr. Leonid Ksanfomality comments on his recent claims that the Soviet landing probe Venera-13 imaged several objects...

Jan 25, 2012 by News Staff

Radar data from the Cassini spacecraft have revealed regional variations amongst sand dunes on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. Dune fields are common...

Jan 24, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Russian renowned researcher Dr. Leonid Ksanfomality has reported that he found several objects resembling living beings on images made by the Venera-13...

Dec 22, 2011 by News Staff

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has obtained the first images of Vesta from its low-altitude orbit, according to the mission’s website. The images show...

Dec 7, 2011 by James Freeman

NASA scientists presented a mosaic image of Vesta’s southern hemisphere, showing different rock or mineral types, created from images obtained by...

Dec 6, 2011 by News Staff

Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our Solar system and interstellar space, stated in a press release from NASA. Data obtained from...

Nov 30, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from the University of Nottingham have found that a microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans, which is biologically very similar to the human...

Nov 23, 2011 by News Staff

On Tuesday, 22 November at 20:25 UT, tracking station of European Space Agency (ESA) at Perth, Australia, established contact with Russia’s Phobos-Grunt...

Nov 22, 2011 by News Staff

The MESSENGER spacecraft captured an image, which gives us a close-up look at the crater Kalidasa, named for the renowned classical Sanskrit writer Kālidāsa,...

Nov 15, 2011 by News Staff

Voyager 2 has successfully switched to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft, according to a press release from NASA’s...

Oct 6, 2011 by News Staff

ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has discovered an ozone layer high in the atmosphere of Venus. Comparing its properties with those of the equivalent layers...

Sep 7, 2011 by News Staff

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the sharpest images of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites ever taken from space. Images show the...

Sep 5, 2011 by News Staff

Mars Express has spotted a rare case of a crater once filled by a lake, revealed by the presence of a delta. This delta is an ancient fan-shaped deposit...

Aug 25, 2011 by News Staff

NASA has selected three proposals as Technology Demonstration Missions to transform space communications, deep space navigation and in-space propulsion...

Aug 17, 2011 by News Staff

Heads of Roscosmos and the European Space Agency discussed future manned mission to Mars at Air Show MAKS-2011, was announced on Wednesday, August 17,2011. ‘Flight...

Aug 15, 2011 by News Staff

‘Fobos-Grunt spacecraft has been compiled and sent to the vibration test. A couple of weeks it will be shaken to simulate extreme space conditions’,...

Aug 11, 2011 by News Staff

Russia will spend about $ 1 billion for the construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur region, said Vladimir Popovkin, the head of Roskosmos,...

Aug 10, 2011 by News Staff

After a journey of almost three years, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet’s Endeavour crater to study rocks...