26 June 2019
LightSail 2 gets ready to make its debut in space
... Planetary Society decided to tackle the project themselves. The Society’s first prototype of a solar sail in 2005, the Cosmos-1 project, unfortunately never reached space as the Volna rocket it was launched on failed shortly after liftoff and...
09 September 2019
Ancient light helps to unravel cosmic "dark age"
... in the history of the Universe because the first stars also significantly altered the chemical makeup of the cosmos. Peering into the Reionisation era is therefore a major quest for astronomers, but it also presents a number of challenges...
11 September 2019
First detection of atmospheric water vapour on 'super-Earth' in habitable zone
For nearly 30 years now, the Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionised humanity’s understanding of the cosmos, from helping to confirm the existence of supermassive black holes to determining the age of the Universe and now it ...
27 September 2019
TESS sees its first rare star-shredding event
... world and in orbit will help us learn even more about the different outbursts that light up the cosmos,” concluded Padi Boyd, a TESS project scientist at Goddard. If in the meantime, if you want to see a striking visualisation of how...
