August 2016
Long-term spaceflight and microbiological safety issues
...’s development may also be spurred on by physical factors of spaceflight - periodic fluctuations in solar activity, radiation levels, or magnetic field gradients, etc. Russian orbital space station operational experience shows that processes like the...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
..., and liquid inner cores of planets producing magnetic fields that can help shield atmospheres, to geological processes... it worked out in the end! My project was in the field of planetary protection, which focuses on minimising the potential of (one...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
...The hot-Neptunes we do see are resisting this evaporation in some way, perhaps due to cooler host stars, magnetic fields or some other mechanism we don’t yet understand,” said David Armstrong, a planetary scientist at the University of Warwick in the...
31 May 2017
NASA to 'touch the Sun' with Parker Solar Probe
... Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, is a distinguished figure in the field of solar physics. His work describes an entire complex system of magnetic fields, plasmas and energetic particles that make up the solar wind phenomenon...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
...and unsuitable in close proximity to a strong gravitational field where rapid acceleration is needed to maintain control. Chemical... instruments for measuring composition, temperature and any magnetic fields. Unlike the MINERVA-II1 rovers, MASCOT had...
April 2024
Rotation in the Universe
... that an improved understanding of this mechanism might resolve some of the current puzzles in cosmology, especially if magnetic fields are wrapped into the story. As The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook [Cambridge University Press, 2019] makes clear...
