First Ariane 64 launches Amazon Leo satellites
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The more powerful version of Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket successfully placed a group of…
Mosses for Mars: Testing Aquatic Plants as Space-Ready Biofilters
Enabling & Support 11/02/2026 3 views 0 likes Long-duration space missions will require closed-loop life support systems that…
Hubble Captures Clearest View Yet of Egg Nebula
A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals for the first time the delicate interplay of…
Webb Detects Unexpected Richness of Hydrocarbons in Obscured Core of Nearby Ultra-Luminous Galaxy
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered an unprecedented richness of small gas-phase hydrocarbons —…
Hubble Space Telescope Spies Beautiful Lenticular Galaxy: NGC 7722
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new photo of the lenticular galaxy NGC 7722.…
Rare Cosmic Lineup Gives Hubble Close Look at 3I/ATLAS
On January 22, 2026, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS nearly perfectly aligned with…
Portugal’s hypersonic test ‘generates flow hotter than Sun’s surface’
Portugal has entered the small group of countries with experimental capability in hypersonic research after completing its first…
New Cosmological Simulations Shed Light on Growth of Black Holes in Early Universe
New state-of-the-art simulations by Maynooth University astronomers show that in the dense, turbulent dawn of the cosmos, ‘light…
Magnetic Avalanches Ignite Solar Flares, New Solar Orbiter Observations Reveal
New high-resolution observations by ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission show that solar flares are driven by cascading magnetic reconnection…
Legs made for a Mars landing
Science & Exploration 21/01/2026 466 views 5 likes To land on the right foot on the Red Planet,…
The countdown to clean orbits has begun with ESA’s Zero Debris Charter
Space is rapidly becoming the world’s most congested frontier. What was once a domain of scientific exploration is…
Early Universe’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Supermassive Black Holes, Astrophysicists Say
Astrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen show that the enigmatic ‘little red dots’ — red sources scattered across…