Early Career Event: AbGradEPEC’26 – 6th September 2026
Europlanet
Posted inAstrochemistry, Astrogeology, Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Enceladus, Icy Worlds, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release, Saturn
Enceladus Trails A Wake Of Electromagnetic Ripples That Extend Over Half A Million Kilometers
A major study by an international team of researchers using data from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft has revealed a lattice-like structure of crisscrossing reflected waves that flow downstream behind the […]
Posted inAstrochemistry, Astrogeology, Biochemistry & Organic Chemistry, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Enceladus, Habitable Zones, Icy Worlds, Status Report, Video, Audio, Webcasts, Podcasts
Europlanet Webinar: Cassini Detects Organic Compounds in the Fresh Plume of Enceladus
5 November 2025 at 11:00 CET (10:00 UTC) Speaker: Thomas O’Sullivan, FU Berlin
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release
Bringing The Digital Revolution To Direct Exoplanet Imaging With PLACID’s LCD Technology
A game-changing instrument is set to improve the detection and direct imaging of planets outside our Solar System by harnessing the power of liquid crystals.
Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Habitable Zones, Icy Worlds, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Mars, Press Release
Cloud Atlas Of Mars Showcases An Array Of Atmospheric Phenomena
Cloud enthusiasts have a new tool to investigate striking formations in the skies above the Red Planet. A browsable database of 20-years-worth of images of clouds and storms, created by […]
Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release, Space Weather & Heliophysics, Venus
BepiColombo Observes Escaping Oxygen And Carbon In An Unexplored Region Of Venus’s Magnetosphere
A fleeting visit of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Venus has revealed surprising insights into how gases are stripped away from the upper layers of the planet’s atmosphere.
Posted inAstrogeology, Away Teams & Field Reports, Citizen Science / Open Science, Exploration Gear & Tech, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Mars, Press Release
Away Team Tools: Virtual Hiking Map for Jezero Crater – Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing Site
Prospective Mars explorers can now go for a virtual hike around the landing site of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover with an interactive map loaded with orbital imagery, terrain data […]
Posted inEnceladus, Icy Worlds, Status Report
'Snow-Cannon' Enceladus Shines Up Saturn's Super-Reflective Moons
Radar observations of Saturn’s moons, Mimas, Enceladus and Tethys, show that Enceladus is acting as a ‘snow-cannon,’ coating itself and its neighbours with fresh water-ice particles to make them dazzlingly […]
Posted inAnalog Studies, Away Teams & Field Reports, Biochemistry & Organic Chemistry, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biophysics, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Caves, Craters, Mountains, Subsurface, Lava Tubes, Citizen Science / Open Science, Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments, Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Lava / magma ocean / Volcanic Worlds, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Microbiology & Virology, Press Release
Ultra-small Microbes Exhibit Extreme Survival Skills In Ethiopia's Mars-like Wonderland
The first study of ultra-small bacteria living in the extreme environment of Ethiopia’s Dallol hot springs shows that life can thrive in conditions similar to those thought to have been […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Press Release
Plans for European Astrobiology Institute Announced
Astrobiology, the study of the origin, evolution and future of life on Earth and beyond, is a multidisciplinary field that has expanded rapidly over the last two decades. Now, a […]