August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
The beginning of Polish activity in astronomy dates back to the 15th century and the famous... (engineer, rocket designer) contributed further to the development of Polish astronomy. In the 20th century, Polish scientists cooperated with the USSR in...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... are under way to study the possibility of flying a starshade with WFIRST. If recommended by the US 2020 Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics, NASA could produce a starshade in time to rendezvous with WFIRST and enable the first images...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... in an immense but uninhabited universe full of galaxies, each with billions of stars surrounded by planetary systems? Modern astronomy has proved that, firstly, there is plenty of space available in the universe for evolving life-forms; secondly...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
At the beginning of the 21st century it became obvious that using small-diameter (up to one metre) robotic telescopes in astronomy allowed for breakthroughs in observing non-stationary and short-lived events in the Universe. With the help of ...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
..., with an increasing number of researchers tackling the problem of the origin of life in fields as diverse as biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy and Earth science. This has led to a wide array of possible processes that could have formed the...
May 2021
Visions of beating gravity
... phenomenon? How do clusters of galaxies evolve? Does a black hole have an edge? Questions like these led me to study astronomy and computer science at Groningen University in the Netherlands some 35 years ago. I joined Logica, now CGI, which...
