ARIEL ARIEL mission has been formally adopted by ESA The European Space Agency (ESA) have formally adopted Ariel, the first mission dedicated to study the nature, formation and evolution...
Asteroid Bennu Osiris-Rex OSIRIS-REx “TAGS” Asteroid Bennu The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is traveling to Bennu, a carbonaceous asteroid whose regolith may record the earliest history of our solar...
BepiColombo Venus BepiColombo’s first Venus flyby The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission made a close approach of the planet on 15 October at 03:58 GMT (05:58 CEST) at...
JWST Tests NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Completes Environmental Testing With the completion of its latest series of milestone tests, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has now survived all of...
Award Nobel Prize The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 with: One half to...
ESPRESSO Exoplanets On-sky performance and first results of the EXPRESSO instrument Pepe et al report in their article, the EXPRESSO performances and the first results. Abstract : ESPRESSO is the new...
Planet birth New Observations Show Planet-forming Disc Torn Apart by its Three Central Stars A team of astronomers have identified the first direct evidence that groups of stars can tear apart their planet-forming disc,...
Workshop IAU Workshop on Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society The purpose and scope of the Workshop are to propose to COPUOS STSC a set of recommendations to protect the...
Award Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement 2020 award Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement 2020 awarded jointly to Dr Sheila Kanani and The Travelling Telescope The 2020 Europlanet Prize...
Award EPSC 2020: Farinella Prize 2020 Award Farinella Prize 2020 Awarded to Jonathan Fortney and Heather Knutson The annual prize was established in 2010 to honour the...