June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... in Green Bank, West Virginia, USA, in the hope of capturing non-local, narrow band signals that might indicate a message sent from a distant civilization. A 2015 US$100 million ‘Breakthrough Listen’ grant to UC Berkeley scientists provided an influx...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
... even proven that dormant algae are able to survive in a space vacuum for up to 16 months, which is hugely beneficial as it indicates that dormant algal seed cultures can survive exposure to the vacuum of space in emergencies. So, algae are great...
May 2019
Wake-up call for debris creation in geostationary orbit
...work by Anderson and Schaub of the University of Colorado has indicated that removing just a few objects (around 10) could halve ...Retriever. Necropolis study GEO debris modelling work... has indicated that removing just a few objects (around 10) could...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... we call the giant planet migration (GPM). Computer simulations indicate that the event occurred about 800-900 million years after ...up the rings melt and rain down on Saturn, which indicates that the rings will waste away sooner than we anticipated....
May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
... was also involved in uranium enrichment research, the international community raised the alarm. While this could indicate the development of a nuclear weapon, Iran has always rejected allegations that it wants to develop an atomic bomb. In 2007...
August 2020
Interplanetary spaceflight and restorative justice
...Mars missions. Analogue studies have given some indications of the psychological challenges that humans might ...therefore, that conflict levels would be even greater than indicated in simulations. Conflict in the special environment of interplanetary...
