13 March 2020
Over 100 new minor planets found in new astronomical survey
...hypothetical Planet Nine. The objects found in this bumper crop of discoveries are known as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). TNOs are any... off as the researchers found 316 TNOs, including 245 discoveries made by DES and 139 new objects that were not...
16 September 2020
Breakthrough Initiatives to fund a study into the possibility of aerial life in Venus' atmosphere
... life and analyse the technical challenges of an exploratory mission in the event that such evidence proves compelling. Discovery of Phosphine The new paper, from lead author Dr. Jane Greaves of Cardiff University, Dr. Seager and their collaborators...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
...limited by social stereotyping but many of those scientific discoveries that do fall outside the widely accepted norm are ... as a mission specialist on STS-116 Space Shuttle Discovery in December 2006 Margaret Hamilton, who developed flight software...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
...the story of space exploration. One of these surprising and recent discoveries is the world of quilting. This is another whole world ...to add texture and dimension. So, how did this wonderful discovery come about? You might recall in the last issue of ...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
...obtain high-precision analyses, it is necessary to bring samples back to Earth. Sample return missions have enabled extraordinary discoveries that fundamentally improved our understanding of the Moon with the Apollo missions and their 382 kg of lunar...
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...
