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...
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...
September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... total number of electrons the signal has traversed in the diffuse plasma that fills interstellar and intergalactic space, called the dispersion measure. This smearing of the radio signal due to electrons in the cosmic medium is analogous...
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...
