25 February 2019
Scientists create DNA-like molecule to aid search for alien life
When scientists finally get to sample alien life, what will they see? Will their genetic structure mimic ours or will it be wildly different? How different can DNA be? It turns out that the familiar DNA double helix structure that is essential for ...
08 March 2019
Astronomers weigh the galaxy with Hubble and Gaia
... of these conundrums and help astronomers work out where our galaxy fits in the grand-scale of the cosmos.
27 March 2019
Storm-plagued exoplanet revealed in detail with GRAVITY
... Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) is a one example of many antennas working together as one to see the cosmos in finer detail than ever before. Unlike ALMA, GRAVITY uses visible light (not Millimetre/Submillimetre radiation...
05 April 2019
Hayabusa2 probe 'bombs' asteroid to create a crater
... to the harsh environment of space over the billions of years this primordial rock has spent wandering the cosmos, Hayabusa-2 will be able to collect freshly unearthed fragments that have never seen the light of day thanks...
10 April 2019
Ring of fire around black hole revealed for first time
..., were yet more indirect proof that something huge but unseen were lurking potentially everywhere the cosmos. But now the impossible has been made possible. So just how difficult has it been to provide an image...
29 May 2019
Comets inspire new way to make breathable oxygen on other planets
... face is a shortage of molecular oxygen (O2) to breathe. Unfortunately for us, O2 is very hard to come by in the vast expanses of the cosmos. Not only that but in the frigid environment of outer space, or on planets with thin atmospheres, the heat...
