04 May 2020
Exoplanets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres could harbour life
... of life in these environments is lacking. To address this shortfall, Sara Seager at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US and colleagues conducted laboratory-based tests on two single-celled microorganisms, escherichia coli and yeast...
12 October 2020
Rarely detected star shredding event caught in unprecedented detail
... says study author Thomas Wevers, an ESO Fellow in Santiago, Chile, who was at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK, when he conducted the work. “We immediately pointed a suite of ground-based and space telescopes in that direction...
12 March 2021
Scientists find a rocky exoplanet rebuilding its atmosphere
... planet, and so it is a window onto the geology of another world,” explained team member Paul Rimmer of the University of Cambridge, UK. “A lot more work needs to be done to properly look through it, but the discovery of this window is of great...
04 February 2018
Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar: A Guided Tour of the Solar System
At first glance, the contents list of this book appears to cover the planets of the solar system one by one but a second glance shows that the gas giants are missing. Instead, the author substitutes some of the better known moons of the solar system...
29 March 2018
Mapping the Heavens
... monthly sky map over Delhi for a national newspaper”. Her curiosity and talent led eventually to MIT, Cambridge (UK) and a PhD in astrophysics. Recognising that there are many books that tell the history of cosmological discoveries...
29 March 2018
Radio Astronomer
... ‘The Dish’). The author traces Bolton’s story from his birth in Sheffield, UK, via education at Trinity College, Cambridge, and his emigration to the antipodes, to his professional achievements. Towards the end, we learn of Bolton’s involvement with...
