On 11 June, engineers at OHB’s facilities in Germany joined together the two main parts of ESA’s Plato mission. They used a special crane to lift Plato’s payload module, housing
On 11 June, engineers at OHB’s facilities in Germany joined together the two main parts of ESA’s Plato mission. They used a special crane to lift Plato’s payload module, housing
Featured in this NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month is a nearby galaxy that outshines the Milky Way. This galaxy, called Messier 82 (M82) or the Cigar Galaxy, is
What can the pH level of the subsurface ocean on Enceladus tell us about finding life there? This is what a recent study accepted to Icarus hopes to address as
What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as an international team
How accurate are the exoplanet radius measurements obtained by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)? This is what a recent study accepted to The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as
Astrobiology Inspires and Enables Exploration — Astrobiology.com Astrobiology.com Editor’s note: the following white paper has been circulated by leaders of the Astrobiology community in March 2025. Please read through it
Japan on Sunday successfully launched a climate change monitoring satellite on its mainstay H-2A rocket, which made its final flight before it is replaced by a new flagship model designed
Planetary growth timescales in an irradiated disc, for different fragmentation velocities (vfrag = 1 m/s in the left panel, vfrag = 10 m/s in the right panel). The black dotted
Flux contamination from nearby sources in the photometry of a TESS Object of Interest, TOI-4479. Left: heat map with the pixel-by-pixel flux fraction coming from TOI-4479 in sector 41. The
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