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- Hera asteroid mission’s side-trip to Mars 2024-04-25ESA’s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its target Didymos binary asteroid system.
- Ariane 6 standing tall 2024-04-24Image: Ariane 6 standing tall
- Dead star lights up nearby galaxy 2024-04-24While ESA's Integral was observing the sky, it suddenly spotted a burst of gamma-rays coming from the nearby galaxy M82. Only a few hours later, ESA’s XMM-Newton searched for an afterglow from the explosion but found none. Astronomers realised that the burst must have been an extra-galactic flare from a magnetar, a young neutron star […]