December 2021

Wednesday 5 JanuaryThe Moon passes 4 ° south of Jupiter at 7 p.m. EST tonight. Now in the constellation Aquarius, our satellite is about 14% illuminated and features of its eastern limb (west of the sky) are visible. The most important is…

12/31/2021 Act. At 10:16 am CET Joan Lluís Ferrer A multidisciplinary scientific team from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), the University of the Balearic…

Rest well, old friendPhoto: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwestern Research InstituteYou know the old slogan: In space, nobody can hear you scream. Unfortunately, being stuck on our rapidly heating up!-->!-->…

Some of the most exciting space missions are ready to go in 2022.This year, expect the first images and…

The Hubble Telescope may be considered obsolete after the successful launch of the James Webb Telescope, but the aging telescope still captures beautiful images of our universe.In 2021, Hubble gave us plenty of insights into the inner…

Scientific discoveries on Mars can be so shallow - hunting for water caches, terrestrial sampling, and other technical wonders tend to take place on the surface of the Red Planet (or a little above). But as NASA's Perseverance rover roams…

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The James Webb Space Telescope - humanity's biggest bet to date in its quest to probe the Universe - flew into space on December 25, marking the culmination of decades of work by the world's astronomers whole. But for…

World Environment Day (June 5, 2021) marked the official start of the United Nations Decade for Ecosystem Restoration, a global initiative to revive the natural world. Tim Christophersen, United Nations Decade Coordinator at the United…

Earth and Mars were formed from material largely derived from the inner solar system; only a few percent of the building blocks of these two planets originate from beyond Jupiter's orbit. A group of researchers led by the University of…