Ariane 5 doesn’t want to fly away. It knows it’s for good
This was to be the one hundred and seventeenth and at the same time the last ever flight of the already legendary Ariane 5 rocket, so it’s no surprise that…
A new explanation for planet formation? Why not!
If you want to find out how small planets might form, there is only one place you can turn to. Protoplanetary disks encircling young stars – this is where the…
James Webb Space Telescope looks at Saturn. What a mesmerizing photo!
The main task of the James Webb Space Telescope, thanks to its infrared observation capabilities, is to look into the most remote regions of the universe and search for the…
Ingenuity phones home! Well, that was a long stretch of silence
It’s hard to believe today that just two years ago, shortly after the Perseverance rover landed on Mars, engineers were giving the first drone on the Red Planet a maximum…
Up, up and away! Euclid is on its way to study the dark universe
Finally, we are on our way to study the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that constitute most of the Universe. As of now, there are many more questions about…
Vision of the future: flying above the surface of Titan
At NASA, work on more near and far space missions is going on almost constantly. However, some scientists are engaged in preparing concepts for space missions that will not be…
This is where the stars are born. Those photos show the real size of stellar nurseries
Using ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), astronomers have created a vast infrared atlas of five nearby stellar nurseries by piecing together more than one million images.…
Have you seen this cat in the sky? Fantastic new photo by ESO
This cloud of orange and red, part of the Sh2-284 nebula, is shown here in spectacular detail using data from the VLT Survey Telescope, hosted by the European Southern Observatory…