Sorry. Couldn’t resist it. We just landed on Titan!

This morning the Huygens probe, carried for 7 years by the Cassini spacecraft, entered the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon: Titan. Shortly after reaching the ‘interface altitude’ (where the atmosphere officially begins) Huygens deployed its pilot parachute, which pulled away the rear cover and released the main [...]

According to this New Scientist article, Stephen Hawking now thinks that information in black holes may not be lost forever. He will make his case at the 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation in Dublin on 21st July. His last-minute request was granted solely based on his reputation, as details of the new [...]

Many people I’ve spoken to seem to have given up hope for the Beagle 2, but there’s no need. So far communication/detection attempts have been made through Mars Odyssey and the Jodrell Bank Observatory. Mars Odyssey was hit by a solar flare on 28 October, knocking out at least one instrument. The communications system was [...]

Beagle 2 is on Mars, there’s no doubt about it. Gravity being the useful thing is it, the small craft reached the ground at 02:54GMT on Christmas morning. The first opportunity for contact, a communication via Mars Odyssey, was missed. This means nothing as it stands currently, but as Colin Pillinger, mission director, said: “it’s [...]