August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... to explore in our Solar System with smaller spacecraft? The Sun is an obvious target, since we can cost-effectively send ..., including its interaction with the solar wind. Observing our Sun The Sun is a massive, roiling, dynamic object at the centre ...
26 November 2021
A closer Moon could have helped the early habitability of our planet
... that not long after the formation of the Earth, our young sun was only pumping out around 70 percent of the solar radiation ...history and a low output of the Sun is known as the faint Sun paradox or faint Sun problem. This issue was raised by ...
February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
...is a notionally spherical cloud of small bodies that orbit the Sun within interstellar space, at distances of a large fraction of a... by humanity are puny compared to a star Both the Sun and the nuclear explosion emit radiation over a broad wavelength ...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
...not exist except for the protection that our atmosphere and ozone layer provide us against the Sun’s radiation. Modern society is heavily dependent on a sophisticated electronic infrastructure that is highly vulnerable to cosmic dangers. Solar storms...
