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BepiColombo, the joint European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission, has revealed how electrons raining down onto the surface of Mercury can trigger high-energy auroras. The mission, which has been enroute to the Solar System’s innermost planet since 2018, successfully carried out its first Mercury flyby on 1 October 2021. An international team of researchers analysed data from three of BepiColombo’s instruments during the encounter. The outcomes of th...

London, UK (SPX) Jul 14, 2023 - Northumbria University in the UK is set to revolutionize the satellite communication systems, thanks to a generous funding award of 5 million pounds from the UK Space Agency. This investment will en

A £5 million award from the UK Space Agency will allow Northumbria University to take forward  research to build a new satellite communications system,

Just months after a successful launch from French Guiana, the two particle-detecting instruments APL built on behalf of NASA for Europe’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission have already displayed their sophisticated capabilities.

A new Minecraft world based on the work of artist Oliver Jeffers and astronomer Professor Stephen Smartt, who is partly based at Queen’s University Belfast, has been downloaded over one million times since it was launched in April.The cosmic adventur

Resolve Optics installed and commissioned a new vibration test center adding to the suite of in-house lens-testing equipment the company is able to of

Given the rich history of lunar expeditions, particularly the Apollo programme, which provided groundbreaking technologies for human landings, the ambitious goal of returning humans to the Moon appears to be within reach. The Apollo-11 mission marked a historic milestone in 1969 and the Apollo 17 concluded the series as the final human lunar mission in 1972. While the focus in recent years has been on robotic missions for scientific experiments, the excitement of landing and working on Moon adds...

A mystery which has baffled astronomers and physicists for decades is a step closer to being solved thanks to a collaboration between Northumbria University and leading US aerospace technology...

A new program combining art and science by hosting local artists at the University of Colorado Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics will begin this fall.

    by girish linganna  on september 6, 2019, the aspirations of more than a billion individuals were reliant on a mission that was on its way to the dark side of the moon—an area that is perpetually shrouded in darknes