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...
February 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...
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...
July 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 ...
