April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
... for worldwide Internet access are completed. As David Galadí-Enríquez explains, the intensive use of low Earth orbit by these new satellite networks is already proving detrimental - whether from an aesthetic, cultural or scientific point of view...
April 2021
Making space part of the everyday European agenda
... also motivated by the sustainability argument and protecting our planet by working to better understand climate and the Earth system. Ultimately, science is always the driver of our activities, to better understand the values and complexities of our...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
...humanity’s future. To search. To learn. To acquire new resources and conduct research. The second is the demand to stay on Earth, to conserve, to repair, to care, to maintain and to sustain. This alternative vision of the future flows from the mouths...
05 March 2021
For the first time, organic materials essential for life have been found on the surface of an asteroid
... because S-type (stony) asteroids, the type which gives rise to the most popular type of meteorite found on Earth – chondrites – typically have low organic contents. As such, studying the organic make-up of chondrites is challenging, especially when...
April 2024
The promise of space-based LiDAR
... sectors from real estate to energy, space-based LiDAR is poised to become the new horizon of revenue generation in Earth observation. For instance, AI-powered analytics services can offer businesses valuable insights for optimising logistical routes...
20 August 2018
Galaxy should be teeming with water-worlds say researchers
...radii. The rocky ones, the team say, would be Earths and super-Earth type planets made up of material similar to our own ... about 35 percent of all known exoplanets that are bigger than Earth should be water-rich, that likely formed in similar ways to...
