The Spacecraft JUICE has been launched successfully by the European Space Agency (ESA) and sent on its journey to Jupiter and its mysterious satellite, Ganymede. The information it will transmit in ten years’ time could change our worldview. Twice before the observation of Jupiter’s moons changed the image of the...
Images from the James Webb telescope show mature galaxies in the earliest moments of the universe. Is everything already there at the beginning? Development has two surprises. The first you experience when you learn a foreign language, for example. Word for word, then phrase for phrase, one practices and then...
Astronomers have discovered a giant comet that points to both the past and future – it could shed light on the origin of life, but it is also a cosmic image of human enterprise. Not infrequently, it is coincidences that lead to discoveries. This is also the case here. Astronomers...
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