Hera spies a half-hidden asteroid moonlet

Published on November 12, 2026

Another early preview of the Didymos binary asteroid system from ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence. Acquired from 56 km away, this image shows one face of the main 780-m-diameter Didymos asteroid. A small part of its 151-m-diameter Dimorphos moonlet is also visible, peeking out from near the top of Didymos.

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Vast data dump from Euclid space telescope reveals stunning galaxies

November 12, 2026
The European Space Agency has just released a vast batch of observations of the sky captured by the Euclid space telescope. Launched in 2023, the telescope is currently on a six-year mission to image about one-third of the sky to build the most detailed 3D map of the cosmos ever created.The latest observations – catchily titled DR1-Foundation – cover an area of the sky as big as 9500 full moons. T