May 2024
Spaceflight revolution on a shoestring
... objects of interest in the solar system, and space telescopes larger than terrestrial ones are enabling breakthrough discoveries. There are wide environmental benefits. This is not a science fiction dream. There is a roadmap for space launch...
October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
..., accumulating 180 days in space. As a mission specialist on STS-124 she rode on was part of a crew on Space Shuttle Discovery playing its part in building the ISS by installing the Japanese laboratory. Then, as a flight engineer for Expedition...
March 2026
Humanity – the potential of space
... history, the drivers of exploration have remained remarkably consistent: power, pride, profit, security and scientific discovery. Whether seeking new lands, trade routes or strategic advantages, these motivations shaped humanity’s early ventures...
April 2026
Exploring Mars – the key issues
... central Europe, between the 15th and 17th centuries, occurred during a period of unprecedented physical exploration and discovery. For example, while exploring the globe, Britain’s navy drove innovation in everything from nutrition to navigation and...
09 July 2015
Discovery of a five-star solar system in Ursa Major highlights mystery of proto-stellar disk fragmentation
... like a bit too much? Not as far as a rare star system recently found in Ursa Major goes. The discovery of a peculiar quintuplet of closely linked stars orbiting around a single centre of gravity has put Earth’s pop culture...
16 October 2017
First detected neutron star merger reveals more than gravitational waves
...about 70 kilometres per second per megaparsec, a value which is consistent with previous estimates. This unprecedented discovery is the subject of five Nature papers and one Nature Astronomy paper containing the collaborative work of 70 observatories...
