29 January 2026
European Astrofest brings astronomy to London
... across the UK and overseas. The conference programme for 2026 reflects the breadth of modern astronomy and planetary science, with speakers ranging from academic researchers and mission scientists to communicators and astrophotographers. Among those...
22 June 2021
The NASA Kepler Mission
... the two missions have made “fundamental, paradigm-changing advances in essentially every area of astrophysics and planetary science”. The Kepler spacecraft was, in effect, a planet hunter. From its launch in 2009, it continuously monitored the...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... Yobi, a services platform later acquired by Orkla ASA. Viktoria Urban has a background in journalism, astronomy & planetary science, and psychology. She aspires to be a neuroscientist examining the brains of astronauts who go on deep space missions...
27 May 2016
Scientists reveal Mars is emerging from an ice age
...'s lead author. Smith led the work while at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, but is now at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona. The retreat and regrowth of polar ice on Mars is due to the increased tilt of the...
13 September 2016
Scientists prove the Moon was created by a vaporised Earth
... compositions. "So people decided to change the giant impact hypothesis," said Kun Wang, assistant professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and one of the two scientists to have led the research on this new...
01 November 2016
New twist on Moon formation helps explain its weird orbit
.... "Every other body in the solar system has different chemistry," said Sarah Stewart, professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Davis and senior author on a paper recently submitted to Nature on this new research...
