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A group of New Brunswick university students is one step closer to launching a mini-satellite into space.Satellite Violet is named after New Brunswick's provincial flower and is about the size of a loaf of bread. It successfully passed the…

NASA and weather experts are issuing a warning about an upcoming solar storm projected to strike Earth on November 30. This relatively minor storm is anticipated to disrupt radio and GPS signals.Experts from NASA consistently monitor space…

A distant, partly-shadowed Earth, as viewed from a 6 000 km-altitude orbit. This unusual image was acquired using an extremely miniaturised camera about the size of the edge of a 20 cent coin – a miniscule technology experiment…

In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the Earth, one beneath the African continent and one beneath the Pacific Ocean. Each blob is twice the…

Enabling & Support 18/10/2023 747 views 17 likes Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) offers attractive opportunities for space applications. ESA is calling for novel ideas to advance our…

The James Webb Telescope continues to captivate observers with its latest remarkable discovery. It recently unveiled a stunning image of Jupiter, featuring snapshots of extraordinarily fast jet streams racing across the planet's equator.…

The "Ring of Fire" is an annual solar eclipse set to occur on October 14, 2023. This celestial event holds great significance for both amateur sky watchers and professional astronomers. To fully appreciate this eclipse, being in the right…

Have you ever wondered how you can tell that autumn has arrived? For some, it's the moment they pull their sweaters out of the cupboard or witness the leaves falling from the trees. But this year, skywatchers are in for a special treat as…

A spacecraft that has travelled more than 950 million kilometres is dropping off a care package on Sunday: samples from an asteroid that lies more than 100 million kilometres from Earth.NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation,…

There's a newly discovered comet in the sky, and it's about to make its closest flyby of Earth.Comet Nishimura (C/2023 P1) will zip past the planet at a distance of roughly 125 million kilometres today. The comet was discovered on Aug. 12…