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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
