29 October 2018
A rare discovery helps scientists measure a key process in star formation
... of a dark molecular cloud, a giant gaseous interstellar region that will eventually one day become the breeding...need all of the atomic hydrogen that is drifting around in the interstellar medium (the space between the star systems in a galaxy) to...
30 April 2021
Scientists identify 14 stars that could be made of antimatter
...type of energy. If normal matter was drawn down from interstellar space onto the surface of an antistar it would annihilate and..., as there would be much less gas and dust in interstellar space to accrete onto any potential antistars. Without a strong ...
21 June 2019
ESA's new mission to intercept a comet
...it is time to build upon their successes and visit a pristine comet, or be ready for the next ‘Oumuamua-like interstellar object.” What is a Fast mission? Comet Interceptor is a ‘fast’, or F-class mission. The ‘fast’ refers to the implementation time...
June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
...risk, especially untested mission-critical flight control software. Thanks to popular sci-fi movies like Gravity and Interstellar, we tend to associate space with the latest and greatest technology. This is sometimes true, because operating a complex...
February 2016
How to Build Planets
...these species, relative to that of amorphous silicates, is far above the expected value for these grains in the interstellar medium, it is implied that significant grain processing occurred sometime in the early epoch of disc formation, either during...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... and filling the Solar System with vibrant life. Europa, Mars, the asteroid colonies - but also, interstellar. As Elon Musk recommends, let’s put our eggs in many baskets. Still, like me, you’d probably hanker to do something...
