‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ is better viewed as a ‘Star Wars’ origin story for Rotta the Hutt
Forget Baby Yoda, we want to see more big buff slug adventures in our Star Wars.
Astronomy & Space
ESA’s Prodex programme brings scientific research to space
The launch of the 4DSpace-Daedalus mission in Norway is the latest success supported by Prodex, a European Space Agency (ESA) programme which enables highly skilled research institutes to…
Earth’s outer core beneath Pacific reversed direction in 2010, satellite data reveal
The liquid iron in Earth’s outer core doesn’t always behave as expected. When it changed direction in an unexplained way, ESA satellites provided data on the direction of flow, helping scientists…
Astronomers discover a super-Earth orbiting a nearby red dwarf
Astronomers from Italy and Brazil have investigated a nearby red dwarf star known as Ross 318 and have discovered an exoplanet orbiting this star, which is at least six times more massive than Earth….
Hubble captures galaxy cluster MACS J1141.6-1905
Look closely at this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and you’ll see galaxies of various shapes and sizes clustered together toward the center-left of the image. A few foreground stars shine…
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, May 22 – 31
Venus and Jupiter — the Evening Star and the False Evening Star — draw closer together in the western twilight and point down to Mercury. The waxing Moon shows off its rich telescopic detail.
The…
Countdown glitch delays world’s biggest rocket as SpaceX targets Friday retry
Elon Musk’s SpaceX postponed the highly anticipated launch of its upgraded Starship megarocket, calling off Thursday’s test after multiple countdown stops-and-starts.
Nereid Could be Neptune’s Only Original Moon
New research suggests that Triton — or a Triton-like object — might have disrupted Neptune’s original moon system. Nereid might be the sole survivor.
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Join ESA for a total solar eclipse on 12 August 2026
Follow the total solar eclipse with the European Space Agency (ESA), in person or online.
Stonehenge and the Geometry of the Sky
For most of human history, the sky was not something we studied — it was something we lived with.
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