Exotic Mix in China’s Delivery of Moon Rocks  On 16 December 2020 the Chang’e-5 mission, China’s first sample return mission to the Moon, successfully delivered to Earth nearly two kilograms […]

Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement 2021 awarded to Dr James O’Donoghue The 2021 Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement has been awarded to Dr James O’Donoghue for his work in creating […]

Cloud-spotting on a distant exoplanet An international team of astronomers has not only detected clouds on the distant exoplanet WASP-127b, but also measured their altitude with unprecedented precision. A presentation […]

EPSC2021: Life support cooked up from lunar rocks Engineers have successfully shown how water and oxygen can be extracted by cooking up lunar soil, in order to support future Moon […]

Exploring Mars from Etna There are many different ways of studying the Solar System and the other planets. Some of them do not require to go to space or to […]

Dashcam Detective Work Leads to Recovery of Space Rocks from Fireball over Slovenia On 28 February 2020, at 10:30 CET, hundreds of people across Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Austria and Hungary […]

2021 Farinella Prize Awarded to Diana Valencia and Lena Noack Prof Diana Valencia, a physicist working at the Department of Physical Sciences and of the University of Toronto, and Prof […]

EPSC2021: From walls and railings of our cities to…space: the story of Xanthoria parietina One of the main topics in astrobiology is the study of life limits in stressful environments […]

Download a unique educational tool, a comic book about the geomagnetic field and its importance for life on our Earth. The comic book is intended for primary school pupils. Once […]

Mushballs stash away missing ammonia at Uranus and Neptune Mushballs – giant, slushy hailstones made from a mixture of ammonia and water – may be responsible for an atmospheric anomaly […]