The seismic signature of a fireball meteoroid event can be used to tell whether the fireball fragmented or remained intact as ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has reached a significant milestone in its ambitious ExoMars mission. The parachute system, ...

"We are happy to confirm that we have a parachute design that can work on Mars — an ambitious system with the largest parachute ever to be flown outside Earth" ...

The most complex parachute system to ever deploy on Mars has successfully slowed down an ExoMars mock-up landing platform for a safe touchdown on Earth. A stratospheric helium balloon lifted a dummy ...

In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, the researchers demonstrated how origami may be the solution to low Earth orbit’s ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the ...

Thanks to its airplane-shaped folding, the paper plane is statically stable in the vacuum-like upper reaches of space. It ...

According to the team's work, the plane's orbit would decay very quickly after deployment, and would enter Earth's atmosphere ...

This paper describes the relationship of climate to atmospheric particulate matter. The climate factors of precipitation, humidity, temperature and wind speed are mapped to the fine-particulate ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as an international ...