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...
23 July 2015
Exoplanet Kepler 452b and what the search for a real life “Another Earth” means for human self-perception
... to teach us…about ourselves. Kepler 452b, discovered by the Kepler Telescope, is located in our own galaxy, the Milky Way. In terms of the vastness of space, it is relatively “close” – a mere 1,400 light years away from us. Everything we currently...
27 July 2015
Debating Kepler 452b, Yuri Milner, and the search for intelligent life
... this, Yuri Milner’s generous $100 million donations to scientists on a quest to find a signal generated by alien life in the Milky Way seems like a particularly naive gesture – or does it? We’ve already written about how the real power of the Kepler...
01 November 2015
The business of stargazing: from observatory tours to ‘Discovery at Sea’
... cruise provides a chance to look at both hemispheres, with the Southern Hemisphere providing a very different view of the Milky Way than the Northern Hemisphere. ‘Discovery at Sea’ is one of the more ambitious ventures catering to the human longing...
