- 14 July 2024
These days, ideas and evidence change like the seasons. Nothing is sacred, including astronomy facts! So, even the firmest positions are easily abandoned as soon as arguments that challenge them appear.
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- 25 June 2024
The Hubble Space Telescope has a serious history of almost 34 years, a history filled with numerous, often very dramatic events, some of which spoke of the near end of the telescope, of its deorbiting and going into oblivion.
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- 20 March 2024
The number of known natural satellites has officially increased by three. This was recently announced by the Center for Minor Planets of the International Astronomical Union.
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- 17 March 2024
One month ago, the new American attempt to place an unmanned spacecraft on the lunar soil ended with a successful landing in the Malapert A crater area, ten degrees (300 km) from the south pole of the Moon.
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- 13 March 2024
When the Opportunity rover landed on Mars in 2004, the team that operated it was relieved because the descent went according to plan and all the obstacles that were otherwise in abundance were overcome.
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- 10 February 2024
Space is a cold, dangerous and inhospitable place. We ourselves have to design, create, test and apply all our knowledge and experience in order to succeed in our plans to take a closer look at the stars above us. So how are we doing so far on a global scale?
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- 7 February 2024
The second of the large rovers on Mars (Perseverance) arrived on the ground of the red planet in early 2021. Two months later, an almost unwelcome passenger, a small helicopter called Ingenuity, took off on its short test mission.
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- 4 February 2024
Life here on planet Earth has seen numerous changes since the last century and dreams that once were fictional can in fact become reality. Your grandparents never had a chance to go anywhere near the Moon, but you now do! How exactly? Read on below, fellow dreamers.
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- 1 February 2024
Things are moving rapidly in a technology and service-based society, so with less time on our hands the demand for outside help rises. Sometimes, you may need to deliver a package to a specific location and person. But what if we needed to move more stuff from our planet to a place far outside the hemisphere?
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- 28 January 2024
As expected, the flight of the Artemis 2 mission has been delayed. Instead of November this year, the plan is now for it to take off next September, in 2025.
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