European Space Agency set to launch probes at asteroid to test planetary defense system
The Hera mission will study the Dimorphos asteroid that was pushed off course by NASA’s DART spacecraft in 2022
The Hera mission will study the Dimorphos asteroid that was pushed off course by NASA’s DART spacecraft in 2022
Veteran discoverer of exoplanets Ignasi Ribas has received a European grant to multiply by 10 the capacity to discover planets like ours and determine if they contain life
The international community is pushing for the approval of rigorous standards that track and limit the obsolete objects that can pass through the atmosphere and cause material damage on Earth
It will be a little more than 20 years before such a phenomenon can be seen in North America again
Mazatlàn (Mexico), Cleveland (United States) and Montreal (Canada) are some of the cities where the Sun will be completely hidden behind the Moon
The detection of two celestial objects careening through our solar system has scientists eagerly anticipating more
Geologist Juan Manuel García Ruiz has received more than $10 million to investigate the role of silica in the emergence of living beings
The space around us has a magnetic structure that we have been able to explore with satellites. More importantly, it stops us from being constantly bombarded by particles borne on the solar wind
The launch was aborted by an automatic safety system about 20 seconds before the scheduled liftoff. No cause was immediately given, but NASA said the crew was safe
The company said it lost contact with Starship as it neared its goal, a splashdown in the Indian Ocean. It outperformed the previous two test flights
A huge bubble in the center of the Milky Way of unknown origin has captured the attention of the ‘Fermi’ space telescope scientists
After taking advantage of their modest budgets, the Japanese ‘SLIM’ and the U.S. ‘Odysseus’ modules landed on the satellite with difficulty
The company and NASA consider the mission with which the United States has returned to the moon a success despite the setbacks
The lander Odysseus will continue to collect data until sunlight no longer shines on the solar panels. That’s two to three days short of what NASA and other customers had been counting on
The small satellite revolution is enabling a space economy in which participation is no longer limited to major world powers and large companies
Intuitive Machines’ ‘Odysseus’ device becomes the first from a private company to successfully complete a lunar landing
The Intuitive Machines probe aims to become the first private device to land on the satellite next week
The discovery on the satellite shows that these types of seas that could harbor life are abundant in the Solar System
The ocean is believed to fill half of Mimas’ volume. Yet it represents only 1.2% to 1.4% of Earth’s oceans given the moon’s petite size
The NASA astronaut speaks with EL PAÍS about the mission in which he broke the record for the longest stay on the International Space Station
Japan’s ‘SLIM’ spacecraft executes a challenging landing, showcasing the complexity of this remarkable achievement
These deposits, which would be enough to fill the Red Sea, could be used by astronauts on exploration missions and to study the possible existence of life on the Red Planet
American astronauts pressured commanders to reassess their workload, though the episode has been exaggerated
The devices of the Colmena project, run by UNAM and the Mexican Space Agency, are aboard the ‘Peregrine 1′ spacecraft, which suffered a critical fuel leak that is jeopardizing the mission
A private company on Monday launched the Vulcan rocket from Cape Canaveral but reported seven hours later that ‘an anomaly’ occurred
It’s part of a NASA-supported effort to kick-start commercial moon deliveries, as the space agency focuses on getting astronauts back there
The capsule made it to the fringes of space, exposing the experiments from NASA and others to a few minutes of weightlessness, before parachuting back down to the desert