Rather randomly I’ve just returned from a theatre tour where my science show featured yeast in one of the experiments, so when research about yeast surviving Martian conditions crossed my
Rather randomly I’ve just returned from a theatre tour where my science show featured yeast in one of the experiments, so when research about yeast surviving Martian conditions crossed my
Mars is a planet of mystery! Its surface today is cold and dry, yet evidence suggests it was once home to flowing water. Most of the planet’s remaining ice sits
White dwarfs are stellar corpses, the slowly cooling remnants of stars that ran out of fuel billions of years ago. Our Sun will eventually share this fate, collapsing into a
English ESA Open Day 2025: An Unforgettable Journey Through Space Science at ESAC On 4 October 2025, the European Space Agency opened the doors of ESAC – the European Space
WARSAW — The Polish optical systems manufacturer Scanway Space has secured its first order from an American company, in this case from Intuitive Machines for a multispectral telescope instrument to
A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an
It rains on the Sun! Although not in any way we’d recognise from Earth. In the Sun’s corona, the superheated atmosphere that extends millions of kilometres above its visible surface,
Scientists have begun to piece together the origin story of a cataclysmic collision between two black holes that met their fate on an unusual orbital path. The merger, designated GW200208_222617
At the European Space Agency’s (ESA) mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, teams recently engaged in a groundbreaking simulation meant to prepare for the rarest and most severe of space weather
WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab launched a spacecraft for one Japanese radar imaging company Oct. 14, just days after signing a contract for additional launches for another. An Electron rocket lifted




