November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... the number of private companies using this environment has significantly increased which in turn has allowed a great diversity of technologies to be brought back to Earth. Though a positive first step with a few innovators and early adopters, this...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
...us to overlook hot Jupiters. Now, given the unexpected planetary diversity that has been uncovered, it seems that our solar system might...space mission. Extreme viewing Given the unexpected planetary diversity that has been uncovered, it seems that the...
09 February 2016
Are Earth-like worlds built like Earth?
... worlds in other systems are clones of our own rocky planet? In the first steps to deriving the compositional diversity of small rocky planets, models recently constructed by researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (CfA...
26 June 2020
Giant ‘Exotica’ catalogue boosts search for alien life
... to find signs of intelligent life in the universe, released its innovative catalogue of ‘Exotica’ this week. It contains a diverse list of objects of potential interest to astronomers searching for technosignatures, which might be a tell-tale sign...
March 2016
Philosophical perspectives on space
... noticed that the way of thinking I have ‘promoted’ here, namely in terms of socially shared practices in all their diversity and complexity, is easily applicable to a wide range of large-scale issues such as deep space exploration and, closer...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... their reproductive life, maximising the capacity for genetic diversity in the first generation born on the ship. The...allowed). After a few hundred years it becomes much more diverse but ultimately the number of available partners becomes ever smaller...
