07 October 2020
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 awarded to three astrophysicists
... and University of California, Berkeley, USA and Andrea Ghez at University of California, Los Angeles, USA “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.” Three Laureates share this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
On Christmas Eve 1968, a turbulent world looked to the heavens for a unique view of our home planet. Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders had become the first humans ever to leave Earth’s orbit. That evening during a ...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
... this word really mean? The first use of the term satellites goes back to the discovery of the telescope and Galileo’s discovery of the moons of Jupiter. He needed a name to describe these small objects, rapidly rotating about the...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
... 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...
26 July 2015
Debating Kepler 452b, Yuri Milner, and the search for intelligent life
... life. As Rosie Millard wrote in the Independent, the discovery “only [makes] Earth appear more alone than ever.”... written about how the real power of the Kepler 452b discovery is largely symbolic for humanity – an opportunity for self-reflection...
04 October 2016
Results of this years Nobel Prize in Physics is released
... phases of matter.” Many expected the prize to be given to the team behind this years monumental announcement of the discovery of gravitational waves using the LIGO detector, however the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences choose three laureates...
