Tereza Pultarova

Tereza Pultarova

Senior Writer

Tereza is a London-based science and technology journalist, aspiring fiction writer and amateur gymnast. Originally from Prague, the Czech Republic, she spent the first seven years of her career working as a reporter, script-writer and presenter for various TV programmes of the Czech Public Service Television. She later took a career break to pursue further education and added a Master's in Science from the International Space University, France, to her Bachelor's in Journalism and Master's in Cultural Anthropology from Prague's Charles University. She worked as a reporter at the Engineering and Technology magazine, freelanced for a range of publications including Live Science, Space.com, Professional Engineering, Via Satellite and Space News and served as a maternity cover science editor at the European Space Agency.

Articles by: Tereza Pultarova

Extreme wildfire risk alerts are in place in several European countries amid a record-breaking heatwave.

Europe hits record-high temperatures as satellites track heat wave from space

By Tereza Pultarova published

Smashed temperature records, wildfires and broiling soil are revealed in satellite data as Europe swelters in an extreme heatwave that is set to exacerbate a months-long drought.

An unusually cloudfree view of Europe captured amid the July 2022 heatwave.

Satellites capture Europe broiling in record-breaking heatwave

By Tereza Pultarova last updated

Satellites reveal cloud-free views of Europe with parched land and out of control wildfires as record-breaking heatwave engulfs the continent.

One of the European Swarm satellites that measure Earth's magnetic field.

Satellite dodges space debris as it scrambles against space weather

By Tereza Pultarova published

A European satellite that has been scrambling to escape premature death in Earth's atmosphere due to bad space weather has narrowly avoided a collision with a random piece of space junk.

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance collected its tenth sample as it looks for rocks that have a potential to harbor traces of past life.

Perseverance Mars rover collects its 10th rock sample

By Tereza Pultarova published

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has collected its 10th sample as it continues searching for the most promising rocks that might harbor traces of life for a future mission to return to Earth.

Europe's new Vega C rocket lifts off for its debut flight from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

Europe's new Vega C rocket launches 7 satellites on debut mission

By Mike Wall, Tereza Pultarova last updated

A Vega C rocket lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on Wednesday (July 13), carrying seven satellites to Earth orbit.

An image of comet C/2017 K2 PANSTARRS (K2) taken in June 2017 by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3.

The massive, strange Comet K2 is touring the solar system, surprising scientists as it goes

By Tereza Pultarova published

K2, the most pristine comet ever observed, makes a visit to Earth this week. Here is what scientists have learned about it since its surprising discovery.

This mosaic, a composite of near and mid-infrared data, is Webb’s largest image to date, covering an area of the sky 1/5 of the Moon’s diameter (as seen from Earth).

1st James Webb Space Telescope images thrill astronauts, celebs and more

By Tereza Pultarova published

The long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope's views of the cosmos have finally been released, mesmerizing experts, space nerds and members of the public alike.

The ATLAS instrument at the Large Hadron Collider.

Famous Higgs boson behaves just as expected, 'most comprehensive studies' confirm

By Tereza Pultarova published

The "most comprehensive studies" of the Higgs boson conducted to date reveal that the particle behaves as expected and could help unlock some of the greatest mysteries of physics.

A mass of gravel and dirt ejected from the surface of asteroid Bennu by the touchdown of NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe.

Dramatic sampling shows asteroid Bennu is nothing like scientists expected

By Tereza Pultarova last updated

Asteroid Bennu nearly swallowed the OSIRIS-REx probe when it touched down on the rock to collect a sample, revealing that the space rock's nature was much different than scientists had thought.

A magnificent aurora above the South Pole photographed from the International Space Station.

Planned NASA mission to the 'ignorosphere' could improve space weather forecasts

By Tereza Pultarova last updated

There is a layer of Earth's atmosphere that we know almost nothing about. NASA wants to change that.

An image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope's Fine Guidance Sensor reveals hundreds of distant galaxies.

New James Webb Space Telescope test image shows deepest yet field of sparkling galaxies

By Tereza Pultarova last updated

An engineering image acquired during testing of one of James Webb Space Telescope's instruments reveals hundreds of distant galaxies in the deepest ever glimpse into the infrared universe.

CAPSTONE in its halo-shaped lunar orbit.

NASA's tiny CAPSTONE mission continuing to moon as team works communications glitch

By Tereza Pultarova published

Operators lost contact with the moon-bound CAPSTONE satellite yesterday (July 5) after initially completing a set of tasks following its separation from the rocket upper stage.

The Lightweight Rover Unit 1 training for a moon mission on the lunar-like slopes of Italy's Mount Etna.

Cute lunar robots test their skills on Italy's Etna volcano

By Tereza Pultarova published

German engineers have tested a team of cute autonomous lunar robots on the volcanic moon-like slopes of Italy's Mount Etna.

JWST

James Webb Space Telescope's supercold camera is now ready for science

By Tereza Pultarova published

The second of the four cutting-edge instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope is ready to perform science ahead of the awaited release of first full-quality images on July 12.

A growing number of Starlink satellites can be found in low orbit around Earth.

SpaceX's Starlink satellites will help improve space weather forecasts amid sun's unpredictable activity

By Tereza Pultarova published

SpaceX's Starlink satellites are providing data to NOAA to help improve space weather forecasts as spacecraft operators struggle with unexpected effects of frequent solar eruptions.

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope spotted asteroid 2021 QM1 when it was extremely faint.

The 'faintest asteroid ever detected' won't hit Earth, months of observations show

By Tereza Pultarova published

Astronomers have finally ruled out that one of the highest-risk asteroids seen in years will hit Earth in 2052.

A jet escaping from a black hole that forms inside a collapsing star.

Gamma-ray bursts might be much rarer than we thought, study suggests

By Tereza Pultarova published

Study reveals why mysterious gamma-ray bursts appear to blink and suggests that these mysterious phenomena might be much rarer than astronomers thought.

The massive X1.1 class solar flare detected on Sunday (April 17) now seems to be from a third active region of sunspots that's rotating onto the sun's visible disk behind the other two.

NASA's solar forecast is turning out to be wrong. This team's model is still on track.

By Tereza Pultarova published

The sun is acting out, and solar weather forecasters are baffled. But one scientist might know what's going on.

Mercury's crater-covered surface in an image captured by the BepiColombo spacecraft during its second flyby at the planet.

Watch Mercury roll by as BepiColombo probe makes superclose flyby (video)

By Tereza Pultarova published

A new video shows the crater-riddled surface of the solar system's smallest planet Mercury as captured during a super close flyby of the BepiColombo spacecraft.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 53 Starlink internet satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on May 14, 2022.

Coming increase in rocket launches will damage ozone, alter climate, study finds

By Tereza Pultarova published

The projected growth in the number of rocket launches will have a detrimental impact on Earth's climate and its protective ozone layer, a new study has found.

Milky Way map

Untangling the Milky Way's evolution through big-data astronomy

By Tereza Pultarova published

Mapping the Milky Way is a task similar in scope and size to the Human Genome Project. Here, we look at the journey of data collected by the Gaia telescope as it reveals the galaxy's secrets.

Mercury's crater-covered surface in an image captured by the BepiColombo spacecraft during its second flyby at the planet.

Mercury-bound spacecraft whizzes past the smallest planet for the 2nd time

By Tereza Pultarova published

The Mercury-bound space probe BepiColombo has taken its second look at its target planet today during a superclose flyby designed to slow it down and adjust its trajectory.

European Space Agency's Swarm satellites have been monitoring the magnetic field around Earth since 2013.

Wild solar weather is causing satellites to plummet from orbit. It's only going to get worse.

By Tereza Pultarova last updated

Some low-Earth-orbit satellites are falling to Earth 10 times faster since the sun started acting out last year.

The eight toroid magnets of the ATLAS detector at CERN.

Large Hadron Collider's operator will end cooperation with Russia in 2024

By Tereza Pultarova published

CERN will cease all cooperation with Russia and Belarus in 2024 in response to Russia's ongoing aggression against Ukraine.

On the left, comet 323P/SOHO observed by the Subaru Telescope in December 2020. On the right, an image of the comet taken in February by the Canada-France Telescope.

Telescopes watch the sun bake a comet to death

By Tereza Pultarova published

Telescopes watch as a comet disintegrates near the sun, gathering data that might help explain why some comets seem to disappear.

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