Italian instrument aboard BepiColombo switched on and ready to study Mercury
Simbio-Sys, developed with support from the Italian Space Agency, has taken its first image and shown that it is working properly.
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China’s FAST radio telescope compiles largest catalogue of hydrogen beyond the Milky Way
The FASHI survey lists 156,411 extragalactic sources, nearly five times as many as detected by the defunct Arecibo telescope.
Korea’s Nuri rocket completes fifth flight and puts 14 satellites into orbit
The South Korean launcher Nuri lifted off successfully from the Naro Space Center carrying 15 satellites, the most in its history.
MIT astronomers catch a star slowly “feeding” on a brown dwarf
For the first time, a low-mass star has been observed absorbing matter from another low-mass object, in a system about 300 light years from Earth.
Japanese scientists map where rain carried the ingredients of life on ancient Mars
A study led by Tohoku University indicates where formaldehyde, a molecule linked to the origin of life, may have reached the Martian surface and points to possible targets for future missions.
German astronomers detect ‘heavy’ methanol in space for the first time
A team led by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy has identified fully deuterated methanol near a forming star, using the ALMA telescope.
Thomas Pesquet begins training to return to the International Space Station
The French astronaut is due to command the Vast-PAM-1 mission in 2027, the first with three ESA astronauts in the same crew.
Japanese satellite improves Japan’s weather service rainfall forecasts
The Japan Meteorological Agency has begun using data from the AMSR3 sensor, which has made water vapour analyses more accurate.
Solar Orbiter uncovers the origin of the solar wind’s mysterious magnetic ‘switchbacks’
The European probe passed through one of these S-shaped structures and made it possible to pinpoint the exact spot on the Sun's surface where it was born.
NASA makes all of Artemis II’s lunar science data available to the world
More than 800 gigabytes, including more than 11,000 images and videos of the Moon, are now accessible to scientists and the public.
Webb telescope reveals dazzling panorama of a stellar nursery in the constellation Perseus
The image of the IC 348 region, one of the largest ever released by Webb, shows the least massive brown dwarfs ever known.
Vega-C rocket places two European Earth-monitoring satellites in orbit
Sentinel-3C and FLEX, a mission dedicated to measuring plant photosynthesis, were successfully launched from Kourou.