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...
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 ...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... lunar exploration programmes, and the Moon as a target for science and exploration is set to become a new focus of international... the development of the Lunar Gateway (also called Deep Space Gateway). Which of these visions will be implemented? This...
18 December 2019
After delays, ESA’s exoplanet mission launches successfully
... ‘Small’-class mission implemented in the Cosmic Vision 2015–25 programme, the current planning cycle for ESA's space science missions, and the first mission in the programme overall to be launched. As a Small-class mission with a relatively short...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... to worlds orbiting other stars. Investigations using NASA’s Kepler space telescope suggest that perhaps as many as one in five ...View, California. He is also the host of ‘Big Picture Science’, the SETI Institute’s weekly radio show, and is committed ...
January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... a significant setback for many scientists and wealthy space enthusiasts who have ambitious plans of human exploration and...in this test inside a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver. This configuration is how the spacecraft will ...
