Space-made weld scrutinised in ESA lab

Enabling & Support 10/10/2024 33 views 0 likes ESA engineers have focused microscopes, hardness testers and…

Bright fireball over Australia’s east coast

A bright fireball was reported by hundreds of people over Australia’s east coast on the morning…

Most Mars Meteorites Came From Five Craters

Meteorites strike Earth every day. It’s estimated that about 100 – 300 metric tonnes of material…

NASA Reveals the Mind-Boggling Scale of Hurricane Milton seen from Space

We often talk about Jupiter’s Great Red Spot quite candidly but forget that hurricanes can be…

How likely is a doomsday asteroid swarm from Comet Encke?

Here’s Comet Encke – whose orbit lasts only 3.3 years – riding along its pebbly trail…

Sound of Earth’s magnetic flip 41 000 years ago

Approximately 41 000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field briefly reversed during what is known as the…

A New Way to Detect Rocky Exoplanet Atmospheres

The total number of exoplanets discovered to date totals 5,288. Among them are a host of…

Imagine if we lived here

Imagine a sky full of hundreds of stars as bright as the full moon … If…

Close-up of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (December 2023 to March 2024)

Astronomers have observed Jupiter’s legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth,…

How Did Mars Become Uninhabitable?

Mars has captured our imagination for centuries. Ever since the invention of the telescope our imagination…