04 June 2018
More surprises for neutron star merger GW170817
... generate a very strong magnetic field as it spun very rapidly. The production of the field then initiates an expanding bubble of high-energy particles that emits light as bright X-ray emission. Purposely watching the event alongside LIGO...
27 March 2019
NASA to land humans on the Moon again by 2024 - but with better fitting spacesuits hopefully
..., avoiding space debris while being wrapped up in a suit that feels like you’re padded from head to toe in bubble-wrap. Nor should it turn-back decades in the quest for equality; its just an unfortunate case of terrible...
27 March 2020
Mercury's crust could have had episodic habitable conditions, new study says
... were covered by magmatic hotspots that extended from from near-equatorial to subpolar regions. As lava in the hotspots bubbled up to the surface, it caused widespread volcanic plains to form and the regional heat flow to decrease. This in turn...
25 May 2020
Clashing galaxies may have triggered Solar System formation says new study
... than previously thought. After analysing the ages of tens of millions of stars in a 6,500 light-year radius bubble around the Sun in order to understand star-forming events, researchers uncovered a striking coincidence; each time Sagittarius ...
20 September 2021
Best time for a human Mars mission? During a solar maximum, new study says
... ionising effects of cosmic rays. But unfortunately for those who have ventured out beyond the protective bubble of Earth’s skies, cosmic rays can pass practically unimpeded through a typical spacecraft or the skin of an astronaut. To put...
10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
... in terms of its 11-year solar activity cycle, and how the Sun creates and controls the magnetic bubble – the heliosphere – in which our planet resides.” We are all Solar Orbiters Solar Orbiter will be one of two...
