December 2014
Before Rosetta: Svetlana Gerasimenko’s story
.... To be honest I pretty much forgot about it until the comet was chosen as a target destination for the Rosetta mission. Although my family is very proud to have a comet named after it, none of my three children have followed me and my husband...
27 July 2016
Where did Ceres' craters go?
With over 500 days in orbit around Ceres already under its belt, NASA's Dawn mission has already thrown up a few surprises about the dwarf planet. Now, scientists have spotted a distinct lack of ...
06 November 2017
Enceladus more active than previously thought
...distant ocean world. Nonetheless, as promising as these results appear, the team acknowledge that it will take future missions with instruments more sophisticated than those used by Cassini in order to analyse the organic molecules found in Enceladus...
25 April 2018
New Gaia data reveals details on over 1.6 billion stars
... Air and Space Show in Germany, ESA revealed details of its second data release from its Gaia mission, which includes an impressive set of information on over 1.6 billion stars in our Milky Way. This second data release...
21 December 2018
InSight deploys its first instrument on Mars
... on the lander as it is needed to complete about three-quarters of the science objectives lined up for the mission. "Seismometer deployment is as important as landing InSight on Mars," said InSight Principal Investigator Bruce Banerdt, who is based...
15 February 2019
Let drilling commence! HP3 gets ready for action
... Tilman Spohn of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), which provided the heat probe for the InSight mission. "Within a few days, we'll finally break ground using a part of our instrument we call the mole." The mole...
