Filippo Zamprogna

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Will The Mars Sample Return Mission Discover Alien Life?

Mars Sample Return mission overview. Credits: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech

Returning samples from the Red Planet has never been attempted before, but NASA and ESA are gonna try it with the "Mars Sample Return" program

09/03/2023

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Discovering Dragon: the capsule that made SpaceX big

The uncrewed SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on approach to the station's Harmony module. Credits: NASA

SpaceX’s primary goal has always been focused on Mars and making life multi-planetary. The Dragon capsule has been the first step toward this huge goal

26/01/2023

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ESA had a phenomenal 2022! Let’s see what happened…

Dozens of previously hidden jets and outflows from young stars are revealed in this new image of the Cosmic Cliffs from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). The Cosmic Cliffs, a region at the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, has long intrigued astronomers as a hotbed for star formation. Many details of star formation in NGC 3324 remain hidden at visible-light wavelengths. Webb is perfectly primed to tease out these long-sought-after details since it can detect jets and outflows seen only in the infrared at high resolution.

2022 has been a phenomenal year for ESA! We’ve seen many records being broken together with a lot of “first times” and today we're gonna talk about all of them.