Space

Plants may look still and silent, but every leaf is constantly responding to its environment.As plants photosynthesise, they emit an incredibly faint glow called fluorescence. Invisible to our eyes, this signal can reveal how plants are using sunlight and...

Unless you’re a naked mole rat or a worm-lizard, you were never meant to live your life out underground like the poor doomsday denizens of Apple TV's "Silo."Season 3 has revealed how a trillionaire industrialist named Per Stenson (Colin...

One of our solar system's biggest puzzles has long been why Venus has no moon. Often referred to as Earth's twin, Venus is almost the same mass and size as...

Media are invited to hear from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 astronauts during a news conference beginning at 2:45 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Sept. 16, from the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie...

Enabling & Support 11/09/2026 59 views 0 likesOn 15 September, two spacecraft will leave Earth together aboard the same launcher from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou: FLEX, ESA’s photosynthesis mission, and Sentinel-3C, Copernicus’ newest satellite monitoring Earth’s oceans, land, ice and...

The curving, parallel mountain ridges of the Sierra Madre Oriental are an eye-catching feature of northeastern Mexico’s landscape. The spot where these folds nestle up against Mexico’s second-largest metropolitan area captured the attention of an astronaut aboard the International...

Wrinkles on the surface of Mercury have revealed that the closest planet to the sun is shrinking faster than scientists thought.New research suggests that Mercury is shrinking between 10% and 30% faster than had been previously estimated. The team...

A NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract has been awarded by the agency to Relativity Space Inc., and its Terran R launch service in accordance with the contract’s on-ramp provision. The Terran R launch service will be available to...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft hit another milestone this summer, which was also a first-ever for space agencies. On Sunday, July 5th, the probe conducted the first successful...

This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on Saturday, 5 September, shows a plume from the eruption of Anak Krakatau. The small volcanic island, in the Indonesian archipelago situated between Sumatra and Java, began spewing ash and lava...