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...
16 March 2016
Fog looms large on Titan
...now scientists working at the Centre for Research in Earth and Space Science in Toronto, Canada, have found another good reason not ... extracted from images that were retrieved from the Planetary Science Archive. From the 82 images that were analysed, ...
25 January 2016
Helen Keen Presents a Humorous Look at How Science Fiction Inspires Space Science
Award-winning comedy writer Helen Keen delves into the history of spaceflight from a humorous point of view (TEDxESA).
