The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a fantastic shot of the canyons of Valles Marineris on Mars using the High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera.
The Minor Planet Center has confirmed that the Earth has acquired a temporary mini-moon, designation 2020 CD3, which orbits every 47 days and is the size of a car.
Motion Designer Christian Stangl and Composer Wolfgang Stangl used the 400,000 images released by the ESA of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken by the Rosetta spacecraft to make a short film. The footage uses digitally enhanced real footage from the probe.
LightSail2 has successfully demonstrated that space flight by light is possible! LightSail2 demonstrated controlled solar sailing in a CubeSat by changing the spacecraft's orbit using only the light pressure of the Sun.
In a great tweet thread this week, artists Ciaran Duffy released a set of illustrated the solar system and planets in Irish. You can buy the range of beautiful prints here.
LightSail is a crowdfunded solar sail project from the Planetary Society which launched this week on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Deployment in space of the cubesat with attached solar sail is due on July 2.
NASA has revealed that an insecure Raspberry Pi was used as an access point for hackers into the network of NASA's jet Propulsion Laboratory. The hackers stole 500MB of data which included information about international transfers of restricted military and pace technology.
NASA is to open up the International Space Station (ISS) to tourists from 2020, at the cost of $35,000 per night PPS. The price doesn't include transfers to and from earth, which are estimated at $60m each way!
Scientists have published the results of the study of the NASA twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly in Science Magazine. The experiment studies the physiological, molecular and cognitive changes that can happen to a human during a prolonged space mission. Scott Kelly was in the International Space Station for one year while his twin Mark stayed on earth, which allowed scientists to compare the effects of the space mission between the two identical twins.
