The Day the Earth Smiled at Saturn 12 years ago

Here’s the famous The Day the Earth Smiled photo, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on July…

ESA at the UK Space Conference

From 16 to 17 July, ESA participated in the UK Space Conference in Manchester. The agency’s…

A hidden molecular cloud near our Milky Way’s center

Artist’s concept of the hidden molecular cloud in our Milky Way. Scientists are calling this region…

New Apollo Earthrise view shows Juice’s RIME working well

Science & Exploration 18/07/2025 70 views 4 likes When the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons…

Adam Roberts’s Lake of Darkness is a quest to understand utopia itself

In his sci-fi novel Lake of Darkness, Adam Roberts set out to write a utopia, a…

First radargram from Juice’s RIME instrument

When ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) flew past our own Moon in August 2024, the…

Biggest black hole merger ever breaks the universe’s rules

Watch EarthSky’s Dave Adalian and the Bad Astronomer Phil Plait discuss the biggest black hole merger…

Little red dot galaxies have now been found in our local universe

J1025+1402, one of the three little red dot galaxies seen up to 2.5 billion light years…

Four-legged robot’s first encounter with microgravity

Meet Olympus, a four-legged robot developed and built by Jørgen Anker Olsen, visiting PhD researcher from…

Four-legged robot’s first encounter with microgravity

Meet Olympus, a four-legged robot developed and built by Jørgen Anker Olsen, visiting PhD researcher from…