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A Twin Mission to Study Mars: ESCAPADE Takes Flight

The United States has launched two satellites to study the atmosphere of our neighboring planet, in the first operational launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket — a mission that concluded with a successful landing of its first stage on a sea platform.

calendar 14.11.2025
reading-time 5 minutes

Head of the ISA Steps Down: This Week in Space

The director of the Israel Space Agency concludes his tenure, a Chinese experiment successfully simulates a lunar landing, the upgraded configuration of the Vulcan rocket lifts off for the first time, and a promising exoplanet is revealed to be a cosmic disappointment.

calendar 29.9.2025
reading-time 6 minutes

Auroras and Dust on Mars: This Week in Space

Scientists photographed a visible-wavelength Mars aurora for the first time, while another study suggests suspected water flows are likely dust avalanches. Starship faces new issues, and India lost a satellite. This Week in Space

calendar 25.5.2025
reading-time 5 minutes

The Dust That Could Warm Mars

One of the primary obstacles on the path to settling Mars is its frigid climate. A new study proposes addressing this issue by triggering a greenhouse effect.

calendar 4.5.2025
reading-time 15 minutes

Lots of Black Holes: This Week in Space

The risk of an asteroid impact has dropped, a private spacecraft is en route to the Moon, and titanium winds were discovered on an exoplanet. This Week in Space.

calendar 27.2.2025
reading-time 7 minutes

The Shifting Rainfall Patterns

Recent research suggests that the Eastern Mediterranean region is likely to experience fewer rainy days in the future, accompanied by more intense rainfall during each event. What fundamental scientific principles help explain these projected changes?

calendar 14.12.2024
reading-time 6 minutes

A Brief Wait for Europa: This Week in Space

Mission to Jupiter’s moon launched after a hurricane delay, a European spacecraft will study asteroid deflection, a new Mars sample return mission being developed and researchers investigate why the Moon cooled the COVID-19 pandemic. This Week in Space

calendar 15.10.2024
reading-time 7 minutes

What Are the Components of the Atmosphere?

The five layers of the atmosphere and their gas composition are essential to our existence, just like the air we breathe.

calendar 19.9.2024
reading-time 5 minutes

Where Did The Ice Vanish? On Wind and Glacier Dynamics

A new study found that the average daily temperature in the Everest region remains unchanged, yet its glaciers are melting – due to the wind.

calendar 6.6.2024
reading-time 5 minutes

Earth’s Twin Planet: This Week in Space

Sample collection from the far side of the moon, Boeing launches a leaky spacecraft, and a particularly intriguing planet is found.

calendar 6.6.2024
reading-time 6 minutes

Starship Prepares for Another Test: This Week in Space

Heat shield in focus, seniors in space, space debris cleanup, and a surprising planet.

calendar 30.5.2024
reading-time 8 minutes

Burying Carbon in the Sea: An Emerging Solution

Could burying trees in the ocean reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and help combat global warming?

calendar 25.4.2024
reading-time 6 minutes

NASA Withdraws from Mars: This Week in Space

Salvaging Mars samples, Boeing to the ISS, Venus’s atmospheric emissions, and a nearby stellar black hole.

calendar 25.4.2024
reading-time 7 minutes

Dynamic Sun – Magnetic Forces Shaping Solar Phenomena

The Sun’s magnetic field changes with time and creates sunspots, geomagnetic storms and also northern lights

calendar 14.2.2024
reading-time 7 minutes

Second Starship Flight Test – This Week in Space

SpaceX’s second Starship launch, black hole formation, radiation bursts and regulation of private space ventures – This Week in Space

calendar 20.11.2023
reading-time 9 minutes

Limited Vision: Understanding Fog, Haze, and Smog

Why does fog form before dawn? What are the differences between haze and smog and can we prevent them?

calendar 7.9.2023
reading-time 7 minutes

The Israeli Space Computer Cooperative: This Week in Space

Major deal for Ramon.Space, penultimate Delta rocket launch and exoplanet disappointment.

calendar 25.6.2023
reading-time 8 minutes

How does climate chang e affect world vegetation and the carbon cycle?

How does climate change affect Earth’s vegetation and carbon cycle?

calendar 5.4.2020
reading-time 1 minutes

Saturn’s Deep Winds

An Israeli study finds that Saturn’s atmosphere is very deep, revealing a surprising relationship between the depth of the atmosphere and the magnetic field of the planet

calendar 17.1.2019
reading-time 6 minutes

Jupiter’s Deep Atmosphere

Findings of Israeli researchers, participating in spacecraft Juno’s research team, chart a new map of the planet’s structure

calendar 7.3.2018
reading-time 5 minutes

Tracking the Carbon Cycle

Carbon is the building block of life and has a central role in many processes on our planet

calendar 26.8.2011
reading-time 2 minutes