15 June 2020
Green dayglow detected at Mars for the first time
...light emission features, which can get tangled up with sources you don’t particularly want to look at, such as radiation from the planet’s surface below. Dayglow emission in particular is an important diagnostic tool to study the skies as it provides...
23 December 2020
Harmful stellar flares might not prevent life on exoplanets after all, new study says
... showed that Proxima b was subjected to regular outbursts of radiation from its nearby star in the form of stellar flares,... in space are also dangerous. If large enough doses of radiation are received by an unshielded astronaut, it can have fatal...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
...greenhouse effect on Mars is also a challenging task. The greenhouse effect involves absorption and re-emission of outgoing infrared radiation by a planet’s atmosphere. On Earth, carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapour (H2O) are the two main greenhouse...
October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
... be used to reinforce and protect the inflatable structure that deploys underneath from hazards such as micrometeorites and radiation. The architectural inspiration came from two examples of ancient ‘habitats’ - the Clochan beehive huts of the Irish...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
.... Models of binary stars will explain how physics works in the most extreme environments we can imagine Gravitational radiation has recently been detected from merging stellar-mass black holes, validating Einstein’s theory of General Relativity...
October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
... of improvements specifically targeted to optimise the scientific observations, maximise the power/energy availability and minimise the radiation dose. Therefore, all numbers and dates associated with the latest analysis are not considered frozen...
