Explore how mass spectrometry is transforming planetary science – delivering key data from space missions to Titan, Venus and ...

1916: First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men. 1920: French tennis superstar Suzanne Lenglen beats Dorothea Chambers 6-3, 6-0 to win the ...

Cassini changed all that. It began the first in-depth, up-close study of Saturn and its system of rings and moons in 2004. It became the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn, beginning a mission that ...

The final snap was of Saturn itself, even capturing where the spacecraft would ultimately plunge to its final destination. Explaining that impressive final photo, NASA said: "This monochrome view is ...

On the evening of June 24, 1881, Sir William Huggins directed his reflector, equipped with spectroscopic and photographic tools and located in his private observatory in London, to the head of ...

While the glimpses of the planet were tantalizing, in 1997, NASA launched the Cassini–Huygens mission, sending a dedicated spacecraft to orbit the gas giant, studying it, its ring system, and ...

Shijan-21 then towed the satellite to a graveyard orbit above GEO. China, US battle for space dominance China’s satellite operation will be closely observed by two US surveillance spacecraft.

While not a hard edge, or a "wall" as it has sometimes been called, here both spacecraft measured temperatures of 30,000-50,000 kelvin (54,000-90,000 degrees Fahrenheit), which is why it is ...

NASA has delayed the launch of four crew members on a privately funded mission to the International Space Station until further notice due to an air leak in one of the orbiting lab’s Russian modules ...