A spaceship to Alpha Centauri

Once upon a time, it was just a dream, a science fiction idea. Something that belonged to a distant and indeterminate future. But today, that dream is becoming reality. An extraordinary project is underway: a spacecraft will leave Earth for the nearest stars, those of the Alpha Centauri system. The mission will use a […]

Vera Rubin Observatory on the Hunt for the Mysterious Planet Nine

The Vera Rubin Observatory, located in Chile, has recently activated its telescope equipped with a 3,200-megapixel camera, the most powerful in the world. This cutting-edge instrument promises to reveal important secrets of the universe, including the mysterious nature of dark energy, dark matter, and cosmic events that are still poorly understood. A key objective of the mission […]

Twenty years after the Huygens probe: a lunar landing in a distant world

On 14 January 2005, the European probe Huygens, part of the historic Cassini mission, sent back to Earth the first images of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, which had never before been reached by a spacecraft. The images, surprising and far removed from any terrestrial scenario, showed breathtaking landscapes, with mountains and valleys carved out by […]