March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... hazards was limited to countries with operational space science missions, but the growing volume and variety of infrastructure interconnections has changed the status of space weather among the space community, while the magnitude of the associated...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
...human has set foot on any celestial body outside of Earth. In those intervening decades, we have made advances in space science, engineering and commerce but, when it comes to hands-on experience in exploring another world, humanity is only now about...
June 2018
Publish or perish: the astronomer’s dilemma
...The other notion is the image of a ‘system’ of science comprising the funding, publication and evaluation system, with values ...between the ‘ideal’ and the ‘system’ notions of science is that scientific discovery is naturally unpredictable where, for...
16 September 2020
Breakthrough Initiatives to fund a study into the possibility of aerial life in Venus' atmosphere
...Initiatives, the privately-funded space science programs founded by science and technology investor and...about how it got there. The next step is to do the basic science needed to thoroughly investigate the evidence and consider how best to confirm and...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
... of binary stars is a major challenge which will require the best of astronomy, astrophysics, applied mathematics and computer science on many levels. Coupled with state of the art observational surveys, our models of binary stars will explain...
23 December 2015
First new 'ground truth' in 40 years as Chinese rover Yuto presents analysis of moon rocks
... landing site are intermediate in titanium, as well as rich in iron, said Zongcheng Ling, associate professor in the School of Space Science and Physics at Shandong University in Weihai, and first author of the Nature paper in which these results are...
