01 September 2015
Andreas ‘Denmark’s Gagarin’ Mogensen to test bike gear on ISS
For the first time in history, Denmark is sending its own astronaut into space. And keeping in line with Denmark’s famous love of cycling, he ...
25 January 2016
Helen Keen Presents a Humorous Look at How Science Fiction Inspires Space Science
Award-winning comedy writer Helen Keen delves into the history of spaceflight from a humorous point of view (TEDxESA).
01 November 2016
New twist on Moon formation helps explain its weird orbit
... of Maryland and a co-author of the Nature paper. "But we can understand it if the Earth had a more dramatic early history than we previously suspected." This new model proposed by Stewart and colleagues suggests that a similar impact occurred...
30 August 2017
Star formation history of the Universe revealed
The discovery of a molecule that sheds new light on how galaxies extend their period of rapid star formation has been found for the first time in the distant Universe by astronomers using ALMA. The simple molecule is carbon hydride (CH+); one of the...
21 February 2018
Oldest known superluminous supernova discovered
... to learn more about the nature of dark energy while probing even more deeply into the expansion history of the Universe. Study co-author Bob Nichol, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Portsmouth, commented: "Such supernovae were...
14 December 2018
VSS Unity reaches edge of space in landmark test flight
Virgin Galactic’s passenger spaceship has made history with her maiden spaceflight as it successfully reached the edge of space yesterday to return without a hitch back in the ...
