Research Fellow Dr. Babak Bakhit has encountered one of his most challenging projects to date—contributing to the European Space Agency's (ESA) JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) mission.

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

The GAnymede Laser Altimeter (GALA) for ESA's JUICE mission to Jupiter consists of two electronics units and an optical component containing the laser and the telescope for the receiver. When ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a potentially hazardous object (PHO), meaning it could pose a collision risk to ...

The Europa Clipper mission will send a satellite that will slingshot off Mars and Earth to get to Jupiter by 2030. The goal of the mission is to circle one of Jupiter’s moons, Europa ...

a NASA probe that will eventually soar to Jupiter. While members of the public could get their names onto a microchip on an exterior plate, only people like Traub, with ties to the mission ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet’s mysterious small ...

The Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet collision with Jupiter 30 years ago spurred ... to hazardous asteroids. The mission builds on the expertise developed for ESA's Hera mission, showing ESA and European ...

The company is playing a key role in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission by providing a powerful hyperspectral camera: the HyperScout H. This shoebox-sized instrument has just ...

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...

Earlier, the European Space Agency (ESA) categorically rejected Russia's proposals to launch the ExoMars mission in 2024 or 2026, the state corporation specified. Roscosmos also added that it is ...