August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
The concept of a ‘Moon village’, introduced in 2016 by Director General of the European Space Agency, Jan Wörner, isn’t an active project or a space programme in the traditional sense. Rather, it represents an intention or vision for spaceflight and...
23 December 2020
Harmful stellar flares might not prevent life on exoplanets after all, new study says
When researchers discovered an exoplanet around our nearest star four years ago, it seemed the perfect object in which to mount an exploration mission in the hopes of finding life. But then further studies showed that Proxima b was subjected to ...
10 May 2021
Sun's biggest outburst this cycle is sending solar storms to Earth and Mars
Space weather experts are predicting that two violent eruptions of solar radiation blasted out from the sun 9 May, are heading to Earth and Mars in what is being called the largest solar flare of Solar Cycle 25 yet. The Earth-bound eruption has been...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... voyage and for thousands of years humans have remained blissfully ignorant of the dangers of asteroids and comets, coronal mass ejections, solar radiation flares and other cosmic events that threaten our daily existence. The Global Space...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... following: Create an artificial Van Allen ‘electro-magnetic shield’ that could protect Earth against a major solar coronal mass ejection that could otherwise have a crippling impact on the global economy and risk injury, illness or death to perhaps...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
... Sun decided to frighten us, blinding the Rosetta Star Trackers by flooding them with charged particles from a large coronal mass ejection event. Both problems occurred when Rosetta was out of radio contact, and we just about managed to quickly...
