FindouthowthesolarstormthathitEarthandMarsin2024causeddisruptionsonspacecraft,asuddensurgeofelectronsintheRedPlanet’satmosphere,andwhyESA’sdiscoveriesareimportantforunderstandingspaceweather,futuremissions,andconditionsontheMartiansurface.
Find out what real preparation for a space mission looks like through the story of astronaut Sophie Adenot and ESA’s εpsilon mission. We bring an overview of medical training, neutral buoyancy training, virtual reality, and the work of teams who prepare astronauts for life and work aboard the International Space Station for months.
Find out how new observations by the James Webb Space Telescope confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the Moon on December 22, 2032. We bring an overview of earlier risk assessments, the role of NASA and ESA, and why this case is important for the planetary defense system and the future tracking of dangerous objects.
Find out why the first flight of the most powerful version of the European Ariane 6 rocket is important for Europe, commercial launches, and Amazon's satellite network. We bring an overview of the rocket preparation in French Guiana, the course of the launch, and the significance of the mission for the European space programme.
Find out why the cones in Ulysses Colles, on the edge of Tharsis, are rare evidence of explosive eruptions on Mars. We report what scientists say about these Strombolian traces, why there are few of them on the Red Planet, and how they compare them with a volcanic field in northern Arizona. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Landsat 8 satellites reveal lava flows, vents, and grabens.
Learn how Hubble and Euclid combined a wide frame and high resolution in the new ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month of the Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543), and what layers of gas, jets, and rings—about 4,400 light-years away according to Gaia—reveal about the finale of Sun-like stars and a background packed with distant galaxies.