April 2025
Catapult to orbit - will David finally defeat Goliath?
... relatively quiet since 2022. Launch sites in Hawaii and Alaska have been considered and, more recently, Australia has been suggested as a launch site for SpinLaunch. However, its ideas have come into conflict with...
27 July 2015
Debating Kepler 452b, Yuri Milner, and the search for intelligent life
... of discussion on the possibility of discovering life, even intelligent life, elsewhere in the cosmos. Of course, as Elizabeth Tasker at Gizmodo Australia notes, all we know about Kepler 452b comes from just two data points. Indeed, the probability...
27 November 2015
Space Elevator Could be Made out of Diamonds
... specifically could be ideal for this use. Another team of researchers, at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia conducted a series of molecular dynamics simulations and came to the conclusion that diamond nanothread material is more...
19 January 2016
Giant double-planet system around an evolved star detected by astronomers
using the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory, Xin-glong Station, and Australian Astronomical Observatory. The central star known as HD 47366 is larger than the Sun (1.8 solar masses) and is classified as a K1 giant (compared with the Sun which is ...
