10 August 2016
Dellingr CubeSat Begins Environmental Testing
...and magnetic fields that it will encounter during launch and in space. The Dellingr CubeSat will study the ionosphere - the outer region... space exploration; Earth observations; fundamental Earth and space science; and developing precursor science ...
09 July 2021
Astronomers solve 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras
... team led by Zhonghua Yao, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing say they have the answer. According to Yao and...sees a burst of X-rays,” says William Dunn, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, who co-led the research. Now...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
...a human civilization that has control of significant resources in space could build such a ship. The second parameter is the...the object from the received data. Although this might sound like science fiction, a team around Craig Venter, a key figure in...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
...pathways. It’s still early days, but the future for this science is bright, and it’s about to go off-planet. ... it is possible for entire magma pathways to be reconstructed in space and time: a physical history of magma from chemical records ...
21 June 2019
ESA's new mission to intercept a comet
... process has also been fast. Following a call for missions in July 2018, 23 pitches were submitted by the space science community, with six teams subsequently invited to provide more detailed proposals. Among them, Comet Interceptor was...
January 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
... in the Universe 235-242. 19 Wetherill, G.W. (1994) Possible Consequences of “Jupiters” in Planetary Systems, Astrophysics and Space Science 212: 23-32 20 Levison, H.F., L. Dones, and M.J. Duncan (2001) The origin of Halley-type comets: Probing the...
