September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
... and evolution of all stars. In the 21st century, binary stars continue to drive the cutting edge of astrophysical discovery, for example white dwarfs in binary stars explode as type Ia supernovae and confirm that the Universe is accelerating...
February 2020
Investigation of the Coriolis effect in rotating space platforms
... 2001: A Space Odyssey with its famous rotating spacecraft ‘Discovery One’. We have passed almost two decades since 2001, yet... we would like to build and launch a spaceship the size of Discovery One, taking a very rough estimate on the size, we have ...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... known exoplanets, we are progressing from the Era of Discovery to the Era of Understanding, ready to characterise these worlds... known exoplanets, we are progressing from the Era of Discovery to the Era of Understanding, ready to characterise these ...
26 June 2015
From WASP-142b to supernovae: Tom Wagg’s planet and other discoveries by teenagers
... of a star caught his eye. This month, Wagg’s discovery was finally confirmed after further research. The teenager had indeed ...discover a supernova at just 10 years old. These recent discoveries testify to the fact that taking an interest in astronomy...
06 July 2015
From SETI to black crust on Churyumov-Gerasimenko: looking for alien life
...space observatory’s field for radio signals potentially emitted by intelligent civilisations , for example. Unverified claims of the discovery of alien life have been made numerous times, meanwhile – and we don’t mean wacky reports of alien abduction...
22 October 2015
‘Great Pumpkin’ Halloween flyby: implications of asteroid 2015 TB145 discovery
The discovery of asteroid 2015 TB145 has inspired scientists to nickname the ...Pumpkin” having only been discovered on October 10 of this year. Such a late discovery has already been used as evidence that we need to spend more time and resources ...
