September 2025
AI cybersecurity - challenges in space
... environment characterised by extreme temperature fluctuations, vacuum conditions and persistent exposure to ionising radiation (e.g. galactic cosmic rays and solar particle events). This radiation can induce single-event upsets (SEUs), single-event...
May 2026
Mars exploration – the nuclear option
... conditions. That’s fine for cargo or robotic missions, but for humans it’s simply too long. Radiation from cosmic rays and solar storms accumulates. Muscles and bones deteriorate in microgravity. Life-support mass increases with every...
28 September 2016
Yorkshire mines to help shed light on life on Mars
.... Past projects at the mine have ranged from the search for Dark Matter in the Universe, to studies of cosmic rays and climate. Now astrobiology and life in extreme environments can be added to the impressive list, as Peter Edwards...
21 November 2017
First interstellar asteroid looks nothing like expected
... amounts of water or ice. It is likely that its dark surface is now reddened due to the effects of irradiation from cosmic rays as it has been traversing interstellar space. In fact our Solar System could be the first star system that...
11 December 2018
Voyager 2 joins its twin in interstellar space
.... Coupled with measurements from the probes other instruments – the low energy charged particle instrument, the cosmic ray subsystem and the magnetometer – it was enough evidence to support the conclusion that Voyager 2 has crossed the...
04 November 2019
Its official! Voyager 2 has passed into interstellar space
... of Voyager 1 in 1977, observed a sharp decrease in the intensity of low-energy ions and a simultaneous increase in the intensity of cosmic rays, indicating that the craft made the crossing from the outer edge of the heliosphere, called the...
