March 2016
Gravitational waves provide new window on the universe
... but, until last year, scientists had no fool-proof way of testing for their presence. The first measurements, which ... are shown for comparison, with the Sun rising and the Milky Way diagonally from NW to SE. Shane Larson, Northwestern University; Roy...
August 2019
The next us – our evolution in deep space
...evolve as a spacefaring species, we must work to understand the way that space will change us both physically and mentally. Like the... the Sun becomes one star amongst the rest of the Milky Way, new behaviours will be learned and old patterns of action...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... quite similar to terrestrial planets all over the Milky Way galaxy, astrobiology started to develop methods to discover... of any claimed SETI discovery to the public. Reactions The way forward from this moment to the confirmation of a well-defined...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
...region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, located 163,000 light-years away. Early emergence of life...probability of abiogenesis on a planet close to unity. Either way, as with many revelations in the history of science,...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... hundred billion stars travelling through the ISM of the Milky Way Galaxy. What the Voyager spacecraft measured were galactic processes... over cosmic time, but these new approaches are the way forward. About the authors Dr James Green is a ...
November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
... become a nuisance for astronomers on the ground attempting to observe distant stars. Yet, in the same way we have become accustomed to the ever-present Milky Way in our night sky, we would become used to seeing an orbital ring of satellites moving...
