Artist animation of the European Space Agency’s Plato mission in space. The spacecraft is black and silver and consists of three main elements. The top part, called ‘payload’, carries 26 cameras;…
Glacial flow into Deuteronilus Cavus on Mars
The smooth topped, rounded flows seen extending from the base of the crater wall are ‘debris…
ESA’s Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover at London’s Natural History Museum
A fascinating ESA-supported exhibition that explores the question of whether life could exist beyond Earth is…
Why the famous ‘Blue Danube’ waltz is getting broadcast into deep space : NPR
A European Space Agency antenna located at Cebreros, near Avila, Spain, will transmit the waltz into…
Earth from Space: Alakol, the multicoloured lake
Lake Alakol in eastern Kazakhstan is featured in this radar image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-1. Zoom…
ESA – A spiral so inclined
The stately and inclined spiral galaxy NGC 3511 is the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of…
Why NASA scientists are excited about the atomic clock : Short Wave : NPR
Happy Memorial Day, Short Wavers! This holiday, we bring you a meditation on time … and…
Auroras on Jupiter flash in seconds, defying old models
Recent observations from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have…
Major X1.1 solar flare erupts from Region 4098
There were no radio signatures that would suggest a coronal mass ejection (CME) was produced. However,…
Strange double starlight pulses revealed in new SETI search
View larger. | Artist’s depiction of laser signals from a star reaching Earth. The search for…