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...
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 ...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
...the maximum chance of finding planets, are only possible from space. Kepler stared for four years at the same patch ... of Warwick in the UK and leads the PLATO mission’s Science Management Office. His research focuses on the discovery of transiting ...
