Instrument uses millimeter-wave radar to measure density of dust that kicks up from spacecraft thrusters
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed an instrument to measure the density of the dust that ...
En route to an asteroid, spacecraft snaps ghostly views of Earth
The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific ...
Asteroid-Seeking Spacecraft Snaps Poignant Views Of Earth
ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid ...
NASA launches mission to investigate a potentially habitable ocean world
A mission that will investigate whether life could exist on an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system — Jupiter’s moon ...
Spacecraft blasts off to hunt alien life on a distant moon
A spacecraft that will hunt for signs of alien life on one of Jupiter’s icy moons has blasted off from Cape Canaveral, ...