07 August 2019
Crater evidence points to a past mega-tsunami on Mars
... such a scenario, scientists still can’t agree on whether a martian northern ocean existed or not in the planet’s early history. Hoping to provide more conclusive evidence Costard and colleagues plan to examine the crater further using images...
09 September 2019
Ancient light helps to unravel cosmic "dark age"
... in signing the end of the cosmic dark ages, the EoR is one of the least understood epochs in the history of the Universe because the first stars also significantly altered the chemical makeup of the cosmos. Peering...
18 November 2019
First global geological map of Titan unveiled
... to tens of kilometres in length and up to a couple of kilometres high, that may have formed by contractional tectonism early in Titan’s history. Also doted about are smaller but equally lumpy hummocky regions. The largest hummocky outcrop is in the...
30 May 2020
An historic day for US spaceflight as Crew Dragon launches successfully
30th May, 2020 will go down in spaceflight history as the day two US astronauts lifted off from US soil on a SpaceX private rocket destined for the International ...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
... is much higher than unity, it would be in conflict with the lack of evidence for multiple abiogenesis events in Earth’s history. If we discover organisms beyond Earth, the first possibility is that they have the same origin as us (i.e., born by the...
01 April 2025
Florida’s Space Coast
...book, which is part of a series on Florida’s history and culture, serves to enhance that understanding by analysing...the book exhibits a dual personality in being a dispassionate, academic history, while serving as a bit of an autobiography. In my ...
