The Biomass mission will use a long-forbidden part of the radio spectrum to see how much carbon forests capture.

This paper explores the geopolitical context of the EU's space activities, with a focus on security and defence, and the response to space-related risks. It presents four future scenarios, ...

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

Astronomers have tracked a mysterious magnetar, SGR 0501+4516, across the Milky Way, revealing it may not have formed in a ...

A decade of observations cast doubt on the typical magnetar origin story, at least as it relates to SGR 0501+4516.

A key player in the European DeepTech market and a leading Polish space technology company,.A., has signed the largest contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to date ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain cautious.

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Galaxies may not be as simple as "young and blue" or "old and red." A new idea from astrophysicist Charles Steinhardt proposes a third type: red star-forming galaxies that break the mold. These galaxi ...

A black hole 600,000 times the mass of the Sun was discovered close to the Milky Way, and it is shooting stars at us. Home to a monster black hole ...