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• Read ESA's Strategy 2040

  | Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:00:00 +0100
  

  ESA's Strategy 2040

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• Forest satellite’s big antenna opens up

  | Wed, 07 May 2025 10:15:00 +0200
  

  Just a week after its launch, ESA’s Biomass mission has reached another critical milestone on its path to delivering unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their vital role in Earth’s carbon cycle – the satellite’s 12-metre-diameter antenna is now fully deployed.

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• 'Eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the sun': Elon Musk explains his drive to colonize Mars

  | Wed, 07 May 2025 22:00:00 +0000
  

  Elon Musk explained the rather depressing fate of life on Earth to Fox News host Jesse Waters, who had asked him why humanity should go to Mars.
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• Hours before a solar eclipse, spruce trees 'talk' to each other

  | Wed, 07 May 2025 21:00:00 +0000
  

  A new study suggests trees in the forest can access ancient memories and "talk" to each other hours before a solar eclipse.
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• NASA diagnoses fracture in a 'huge cosmic bone' using X-ray observatory

  | Wed, 07 May 2025 20:00:00 +0000
  

  A combination of X-ray from NASA's Chandra observatory and radio data indicates that a galactic "fracture" was likely caused by a special neutron star called a pulsar.
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• Laurie Leshin stepping down as director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab

  | Wed, 07 May 2025 19:54:36 +0000
  

  NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will prepare for new leadership, as current director Laurie Leshin has announced that she's stepping down from the role next month.
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