Spain Wants the Sky: Could the World’s Biggest Telescope Rise in La Palma?

Imagine a telescope so powerful it could peer into the atmospheres of distant exoplanets, watch galaxies being born, and reveal cosmic secrets from the dawn of time. That’s the dream of the TMT – Thirty Meter Telescope. With a mirror almost three times bigger than today’s largest optical telescopes, the TMT would be one of […]

Did Perseverance Just Sniff Out Ancient Martian Life?

For decades, the Red Planet has teased us with whispers of water, organic molecules, and the possibility that Mars might once have been alive. This week, NASA’s Perseverance rover may have delivered the juiciest clue yet: a rock that looks like it could hold the fingerprints of ancient microbes. The discovery happened in Neretva Vallis, […]