November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
...visiting an Earth-like world moved from the realm of science fiction to a tantalising possibility. In the Summer issue... a few tens of tonnes, real astronauts on the International Space Station require approximately 1.8 kg of food and packaging per day...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
... search As with many revelations in the history of science, what was once considered a valid theoretical prediction has...same abiogenesis event), and they (or we) traversed interstellar space on meteorites. The second possibility is that they originate...
June 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
..., a 10-metre radio telescope launched by the Russian space agency into a highly elliptical Earth orbit. This collaboration...amazing scientific legacy. Its unique place in the history of science as the world’s largest radio telescope and the most ...
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...
25 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...
