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...
12 September 2018
Birth of new star from a supernova seen for first time
With beams of energetic radiation that shoot out from a fast spinning, incredibly dense but compact body, pulsars are ...
15 October 2018
SETI partners with MeerKAT to search for alien life
... in any previous search – for signs of extraterrestrial technology. "With this new instrument we'll be able to form many beams at the same time, obtaining high resolution data for multiple objects simultaneously," said Listen’s Principal Investigator...
19 July 2019
The day humanity walked on the Moon
..., which had a power output of just 20 watts – about the same as a refrigerator light bulb, to pick up the signal beamed from a quarter of a million miles away as planned (or nearly as planned). What happened next was a feat of human endeavour...
