ESA’s state-of-the-art Biomass mission has been designed to shed new light on the health and dynamics of the…
ESA – Biomass opens up
A few days after ESA’s Earth Explorer Biomass satellite has been launched and after its very…
Lifting the canopy on Earth’s forests
ESA’s state-of-the-art Biomass mission has been designed to shed new light on the health and dynamics of the…
Chinese Engineers Used Gravitational Slingshots to Rescue a Pair of Satellites
On March 15th at 8:15 p.m. Beijing time (March 14th at 8:42 p.m. EDT; 5:42 p.m. PDT),…
Why Webb May Never Be Able to Find Evidence of Life on Another World
The exoplanet K2-18b is generating headlines because researchers announced what could be evidence of life on…
Jupiter’s Atmosphere is a Wild Place
The weather gets a little wild and weird on Jupiter. How wild? Spacecraft instruments have measured…
Mars’s Atmosphere Used to be Thicker. Has Curiosity Found Where it All Went?
By Andy Tomaswick April 22, 2025 Planetary scientists have plenty of theories about Mars and its…
More Evidence that Snow and Water Formed Many of Mars’s Landscapes
Ever since the Mariner probes and Viking missions travelled to Mars, scientists have known that liquid…
First Light from NASA’s New PUNCH Mission
By Andy Tomaswick April 22, 2025 Studying the Sun is becoming increasingly important as more and…
The Sun’s Natural Gravitational Lensing is More Powerful Than You Thought
Let’s turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don’t have to do any work…