Robin Leichtnam

On December 25th 2021, while many people were opening their Christmas presents, astronomers around the world were getting excited about another kind of present: the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Launched at 13:20 on Christmas day, this new telescope built by ESA, NASA, and the Canadian Space Agency, finally made it to space after years […]

February 18th 2021, 12:55 PST. A room in California erupts in cheers and applause as mission control watches its robot land on another planet. After years of preparations and almost seven months of space travel, Perseverance arrived safe and sound on the Red Planet, ready to study its environment for a planned duration of two