John Glenn became the 1st American in orbit on February 20, 1962. Astronaut Glenn sits outside the space capsule Friendship 7. Image via NASA. EarthSky’s 2026 lunar calendar is available
John Glenn became the 1st American in orbit on February 20, 1962. Astronaut Glenn sits outside the space capsule Friendship 7. Image via NASA. EarthSky’s 2026 lunar calendar is available
Science & Exploration 20/02/2026 65 views 1 likes Using X-ray and ultraviolet cameras, as well as particle and magnetic field detectors, Smile will give humankind its first complete look at
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over south-central Morocco, near the city of Ouarzazate. Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this image at its full 10 m
How do galaxies evolve? When did they start forming? Those are questions astronomers and cosmologists are working to answer. The standard path includes early bright starforming activity, a middle age,
The Smile spacecraft has embarked on its journey to study the interaction between the Earth and the solar wind, a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese
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The countdown clock at the Kennedy Space Center Press Site stops at T-29 seconds at the end of the second terminal countdown demonstration, bringing an end to the wet dress
A plethora of newly discovered baryonic (or normal) dark matter signals the first step toward the end of dark matter theory. Or so say the authors of a new paper
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Nearly two years after Boeing’s botched Starliner mission to the International Space Station, NASA put the mishap in the same category as the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters —






