02 December 2019
"Impossible" black hole found in our Galaxy
... the proverbial needle in a haystack: only one star in a thousand may be circling a black hole. After the initial discovery, the world's largest optical telescopes - Spain's 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias and the 10-m Keck I telescope in the United...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
... forward with the work to validate this as a planetary discovery. Kepler does not see planets directly. Instead, the analysis...we have. Rocky path to rocky planets No one expected the discovery of Earth-sized worlds to be easy but it has proved even...
19 November 2018
Kepler officially retires after receiving final "goodnight" commands
... of extraordinary service that not only saw the discovery of 2,600+ planets from outside our Solar ...continued to gather data and some of the most recent analyses of its discoveries concludes that 20 to 50 percent of the stars visible in the night ...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
... pathogen destruction, soon caught the eye of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. We are in a new age of discovery driven by genomics and the leveraging of novel biology JPL’s Biotechnology and Planetary Protection Group (BPPG) and...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
.... As an artefact, the MoonArk is built to endure the rigours of space travel, persist in stasis on the Moon for future discovery, and to portray a decodable narrative to future humans about humanity today. These sentiments are conjectural but the...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... published over 190 articles in many journals including Nature, Cell, Human Gene Therapy and Nature Drug Discovery and more recently, papers in astronomical journals where astronomy forms a passionate part of his life. He is a member of Sherwood...
