A balloon mission that could explore Venus indefinitely
Sometimes, the best innovative ideas come from synthesizing two previous ones. We've reported before on the idea of having a ...
Thales Group7d
Discovering the deepest secrets of Venus planet with EnVision mission
Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with the European Space Agency to build the EnVision spacecraft that will unveil Venus’ deepest mysteries •           As prime contractor, Thales Alenia Space ...
NASA’s 2 stuck astronauts take their first spacewalk together
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s two stuck astronauts took their first spacewalk together Thursday, exiting the ...
SpaceNews3d
The remote seeds of exploration
There may be something about Earth’s remote places that root many of humanity’s greatest achievements in space. John Glenn ...
Back to Venus: Europe orders satellites
Why is Venus so different? Several scientific instruments are to explore our neighboring planet. ESA has now awarded the ...
SpaceNews7d
ESA enlists Thales Alenia Space for mission to Venus
The mission comes amid a broader resurgence of interest in Venus exploration. NASA’s VERITAS and DAVINCI missions to the planet are set to launch in the early 2030s, focusing on Venus ...
Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample ...
IT-Online1d
How India’s new satellite will see the Earth
When NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) new Earth satellite NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) ...