02 September 2015
Getting to know the 100 Mars One finalists
The final 100 Mars One candidates are continuing to make waves in the press – as others ponder the seeming strangeness of their one-way mission. The Mars One mission, ...
20 October 2017
NASA Psyche mission to use laser communication
... between Mars and Jupiter, will also test new communication hardware that uses lasers instead of radio waves. The asteroid Psyche has been specifically targeted because it appears to be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early...
23 August 2019
Energetic eruption helps astronomers peer deep within Jupiter's atmosphere
... from a few hundred micrometers to approximately one millimetre (close to one thousand times longer than visible light waves); perfect for peeking through cloud layers that otherwise block the underlying light from coming through...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
...-ionizing radiation is relatively low-energy radiation that doesn’t carry enough energy to ionize atoms or molecules. Radio waves, microwaves and low energy visible light are generally included in this category. Ionizing radiation can be categorized...
June 2021
The coolest experiment on the ISS
... and observed on a microscopic scale, but the waves can be split and recombined, allowing for cutting-...that physicists will be able to measure the effects of gravitational waves to a high level of precision by measuring interesting disruptions to...
01 December 2015
LISA Pathfinder set for liftoff
... Pathfinder will test-drive the hardware for detecting gravitational waves – tiny perturbations in the fabric of space-time that... missions by testing in flight the very concept of gravitational wave detection. To achieve this, two test masses will be ...
