06 September 2016
Philae's final resting place has been found
... Philae’s three days of science into proper context, now that we know where that ground actually is!” says Matt Taylor, ESA’s Rosetta project scientist. "Now that the lander search is finished we feel ready for Rosetta...
12 October 2020
Rarely detected star shredding event caught in unprecedented detail
... about half of that to the monster black hole, which is over a million times more massive,” says says Matt Nicholl, a lecturer and Royal Astronomical Society research fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK, and the lead author...
10 January 2023
Virgin Orbit fails to deliver on first launch from UK
... Soyuz vehicles, as well as Ariane 6 delays and the grounding of Vega rockets after a failed launch last month. Matt Archer, director of commercial spaceflight at the UK Space Agency (UKSA), said he was hugely disappointed that the mission...
25 February 2018
International Space Station – Architecture Beyond Earth
... book is illustrated with colour photography throughout and shot selection is good, though reproduction is spoiled somewhat by the matt paper; this is not a glossy coffee-table book. However, the book is large enough to cover the main...
22 April 2018
The International Atlas of Mars Exploration, Vols 1 & 2
... and, although they are being marketed as a set, the paper type and quality is different (volume 1 being matt and volume 2 glossy). That said, it seems highly unlikely that another author and publisher will produce...
31 January 2020
First images of new solar telescope produces most detailed images of the Sun
... pretty much anywhere in the world very accurately, and space weather just isn't there yet," said Matt Mountain president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, which manages the Inouye Solar Telescope. "Our...
