... Launch System; Morehead State University’s Lunar IceCube and Arizona State University’s LunaH-Map missions. “The BIT-3 is critical technology that will allow small spacecraft and CubeSats to acquire high quality scientific results on interplanetary...
...your way up to senior programme manager. Can you tell us a bit more about your early work on space telescopes? My first job at...trust us to perform it to their requirements. Tell us a bit more about Hubble and the new processes you developed. The ‘warm...
Do five suns in the sky sound like a bit too much? Not as far as a rare star...understanding of space, other systems – came to be, there is still a fair bit of mystery surrounding the workings of proto-stellar disks and the complex processes that occur...
A dramatically dimming star in Cygnus is giving astronomers a bit of a headache. Amateur astronomers working at the Planet Hunters project that ... involve an “alien megastructure or not” – we are finding out about them with quite a bit of a delay.
... vicinity of a planet, and uses its gravity field for a further acceleration in its heliocentric orbit - thereby stealing a bit of the planet’s orbital energy. This makes the journey very long but at the end the spacecraft...
... yet we can see it on most days; its diameter corresponds to the distance from Madrid to Moscow; its surface is a bit smaller than that of Asia. While other continents are typically separated from ours by the water of oceans...