Europe’s mission to jupiter’s moons prepares for april launch

It’s difficult to fully grasp the enormity and extremity of Jupiter. The planet – a striped behemoth of swirling gas with around 100 moons, one of which is larger than Mercury – dominates the Solar Sy

The second edition of The Ocean Race Europe will start on 10 August from Kiel, Germany. Seven crews sailing their foiling IMOCA60s will embark on a 4,500nm race, linking seven countries in six weeks u

Isn’t it amazing that astronomy – humanity’s oldest science – continues to generate such a delightful amount of new knowledge? Seeing as we’ve been studying the motion of the stars for a good long whi

I found your recent article Are We Aliens? (June, p62) very interesting. I noticed it mentioned that samples from the Mars Sample Return mission would “give us further clues” about the panspermia theo

A giant parachute built for Europe’s beleaguered ExoMars ...

‘The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, it seems like an awful waste of space,’ wrote the American astronomer and author Carl Sagan in his book, Contact. Ever since humans first huddled