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 ...
20 November 2019
Insects on Mars, fungi on Venus. Evidence is presented for life on our neighbouring planets
... in extremely hot environments), says Joseph is his recent paper published by the (Nature/Springer) journal, Astrophysics and Space Science. But tolerant, Venus is not. With a dense, crushing atmosphere - Venus' atmosphere is 90 times more dense than...
15 May 2020
An unexpected meeting could see Solar Orbiter study Comet ATLAS
... study the Sun and its inner heliosphere; The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Launched on 10 February, 2020...Jones, Qasim Afghan and Oliver Price, at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, who have calculated the...
26 February 2018
Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
... describes as an ‘irreverent and engaging style’, the author tells the story of some of the Russian and American space science missions of the 1970s and 1980s through the eyes of those responsible. The book is based on dozens of interviews...
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...
