June 2022
In-orbit servicing and the future of the space industry
.... An international body, possibly financed by a waste disposal tax, could tackle this and other issues. We are at the dawn of a new era for the space industry, an era characterised by services that will streamline the cost and...
May 2024
DNA across the universe - the new Noah’s Ark?
... payload, the Hongyun 1 communications satellite, reaching an orbit of 1063 to 1075 km high. It took off into the early dawn sky, its trail creating a spectacular jellyfish-shaped cloud during the ascent. “We worked for years and...
17 November 2015
The famous annual Leonid meteor shower peaks tonight
... all the more amazing to watch. The Leonid meteor shower will be most visible in the early, pre-dawn hours on Wednesday. Although this year's spectacle is expected to be less impressive than in some previous years, tonight, the...
06 January 2016
High-Energy X-rays show Andromeda Galaxy in a different light
... play a crucial role in heating of the intergalactic gas at very early times in the universe, around the cosmic dawn," said Ann Hornschemeier of NASA Goddard, the principal investigator of the NuSTAR Andromeda studies. Andromeda, also known...
30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
... two cameras on board the Hubble Space Telescope. It is designed to focus on two critical epochs in cosmic evolution, “Cosmic Dawn", less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang and "Cosmic High Noon", 2-4 billion years after...
25 April 2016
Near-Earth asteroid population smaller than thought
... estimates, so around 900 ± 10 NEAs. The research, by Pasquale Tricarico, a senior scientist at PSI and a participating scientist on the Dawn mission for both Vesta and Ceres, also suggests that the albedo of asteroids studied to date, in the...
