24 February 2017
Researchers find a new type of X-ray transient
...-S XT1 could be an “orphan” X-ray afterglow from an off-axis short-duration Gamma-ray Burst (GRB), or a highly beamed Tidal Disruption Event (TDE). TDE’s occur when when a star passes so close to a black hole that it experiences...
28 April 2017
Cassini's first dive between Saturn and its rings
... was orientated at an angle to protect it. The craft, which is now back in contact with mission control, is in the process of beaming back science and engineering data, via NASA's Deep Space Network Goldstone Complex in California's Mojave Desert...
29 September 2017
Virgo and LIGO detect fourth gravitational wave signal
... this shape). As such, both have mirrors at the ends of the arms to reflect light in order to combine light beams and create an interference pattern. The advantage of combining detectors is that scientists can confine the direction of the...
23 February 2018
UK to host world’s first commercial deep-space communications station
A large radio-communication site located in Cornwall, UK that was once used to beam iconic images to TV viewers of events such as the Apollo 11 Moon landing, will help create the world’s first ...
11 May 2018
Revolutionary X-Ray navigation system to be used on CubeSat mission
...object moving at thousands of kilometres per hour in space. Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit a beam of electromagnetic radiation at regular intervals or pulses and in the case of millisecond pulsars, their pulse periods are in the...
25 July 2018
Radiation on Europa dictates where search for life begins
... as deep as you might imagine. By using previously published information on amino acids that had been zapped with a beam of high-energy particles to see how they reacted, the team found that a lander would only have...
