27 July 2020
Radiation-loving fungus could protect astronauts from cosmic rays
... positive and one day the fungus could prove to be “invaluable in providing adequate protection for explorers on future missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond,” conclude the team.
19 August 2020
Growing 'dent' in Earth's magnetic field poses problems for satellites
...'s valley, or region of minimum field strength, has split into two lobes, creating additional challenges for satellite missions. Earth’s magnetic field is often visualised as a powerful bar magnet at the centre of the planet, with north and...
07 December 2020
New Gaia data measures Solar System's acceleration
... will be made available soon. “Gaia EDR3 is the result of a huge effort from everyone involved in the Gaia mission. It’s an extraordinarily rich data set, and I look forward to the many discoveries that astronomers from around the...
02 January 2021
Life beneath glaciers is good news in the search for life on icy worlds
...-sustaining microbial communities can flourish in icy environments through the generation of hydrogen gas, it could help future missions such as NASA’s Europa Clipper and ESA’s JUICE - JUpiter ICy moons Explorer - programme planned for launch...
17 February 2021
NASA forecasts cost of Artemis programme at $86 billion
... year's amount. Although Congress has provided nearly a billion dollars more than requested for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Congress have only provided $850 million for work on the three human landing system projects...
26 March 2021
Enceladus could have ocean currents like those on Earth, new study says
... yard where life could be present. It’s status as a potential habitable world was boosted, when in 2008 NASA’s Cassini mission sampled material expelled into space by jets shooting out from Enceladus’ ocean at 400 metres per second...
