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NASA Pulls the Plug on Europa Lander, but Scientists Propose a Plan B
Europa has long been a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial biology because scientists suspect it harbors a ...
Experts say Milky Way has 50-50 chance of colliding with neighbor galaxy. But when?
Astronomers now believe the Milky Way’s “inevitable” collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally ...
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European Space Agency Transmits Strauss’s ‘Blue Danube’ to NASA’s Twin Voyagers - A Concert in Space
European Space Agency Transmits Strauss’s ‘Blue Danube’ to NASA’s Twin Voyagers - A Concert in Space For decades, music has ...
Esa at 50: how the space agency helped keep Europe at the frontiers of science
Europe compares favourably with the US on the level of space science it delivers, and Esa has sometimes “gone boldly” where ...
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Africa has a new space agency — here’s what it will do
Africa’s first continent-wide space agency, the African Space Agency (AfSA), which was inaugurated in April, is looking to ...
ESA's new asteroid hunter opens its eye to the sky
The European Space Agency's (ESA) newest planetary defender has opened its "eye" to the cosmos for the first time. The Flyeye ...
A breath of fresh data: Sentinel-4 innovates for clean air
From its vantage point outside Earth's atmosphere, more than 36,000 km above Earth's surface, the Copernicus Sentinel-4 ...