January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
..., to positioning and navigation. This could even be leveraged by the scientific community on an outsourced basis for planetary science. As we have seen with the terrestrial economy, all commerce is being converted to ones and zeros, including...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
...of the Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration at NASA Goddard, where he pursues connections between cosmology, biology, and planetary science. Joseph Silk is a research professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, and is also at the...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... Artemis astronauts working on the Moon. Onward and outward Lunar samples have proved to be the cornerstone of all planetary science, revealing magnetic signatures that tell a fascinating story that we could never have learned otherwise. Samples from...
12 August 2020
Arecibo Observatory damaged by broken cable
... most powerful telescopes on the planet, is used by scientists around the world to conduct research in the areas of atmospheric sciences, planetary sciences, radio astronomy and radar astronomy. Arecibo is also home to a team that runs the...
02 November 2020
Rare meteorite reveals evidence of water on Mars 4.4 billion years ago
... dark meteorite dubbed NWA 7034. The two have been vetted by the Meteoritical Society, an international planetary science organisation, and found to be a new type of Martian meteorite composed of a mixture of different rock fragments - the earliest...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... ‘First Orbit’, and wrote the best-selling Haynes owner’s workshop manual on Apollo 11. Riley has a PhD in planetary science from Imperial College and is a Visiting Professor of Science & Media at the University of Lincoln’s School of Film & Media.