Researchers observing with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed silicate cloud features in a distant planet’s atmosphere.
ESA
Posted inAstrochemistry, Astronomy & Telescopes, Press Release
Wolf-Rayet Star WR 124 Dust Contains Materials Needed For Life
A Wolf-Rayet star is a rare prelude to the famous final act of a massive star: the supernova. As one of its first observations in 2022, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb […]
Posted inMars, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs, Tricorders & Sensors
The ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Astrobiology Rover Mission Is Back On Track
A year has passed since the launch of the ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover mission was put on hold, but the work has not stopped for the ExoMars teams in Europe.
Posted inAstrochemistry, Astronomy & Telescopes, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release
Webb Reveals Intricate Networks of Gas, Dust, And Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Nearby Galaxies
Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope are getting their first look at star formation, gas, and dust in nearby galaxies with unprecedented resolution at infrared wavelengths.
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, Icy Worlds, Io, Jupiter, Missions & Hardware, Press Release
Introducing Juice’s Odyssey Of Exploration – And Astrobiology
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is humanity’s next bold mission to the outer Solar System.
Posted inEnceladus, Icy Worlds, Status Report, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
The Icy Ocean World Enceladus
A patchwork network of frozen ridges and troughs cover the face of Enceladus, Saturn’s most enigmatic of icy moons.
Posted inAstrochemistry, Astrogeology, Comets and Asteroids, Panspermia, Press Release
“Green” Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) Full Of Water And Carbon Compounds
“All comets indeed give evidence … of a lot of bad luck, affliction, peril and danger” wrote German author Thomas Hartmann in 1606, reflecting the fact that for a long […]
Posted inMars, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs, ROVs/Submersibles/Diving, Sample Return
The Mars Sample Return Transfer Arm
The mission to return martian samples back to Earth will see a European 2.5 metre-long robotic arm pick up tubes filled with precious soil from Mars and transfer them to […]
Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release
Webb Discovers LHS 475 b, An Earth-Sized, Rocky Planet
Researchers have confirmed the presence of an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Icy Worlds, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release, Saturn, Titan
Webb Tracks Clouds On Saturn’s Moon Titan
These are images of Saturn’s moon Titan, captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument on 4 November 2022.