07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
...to alter or tilt its orbit. Data gathered by Solar Orbiter will be stored on the spacecraft, then ‘downlinked’ (or beamed) to Earth during eight-hour communication windows, via the 35 metre Malargüe ground station in Argentina. Ground stations in ...
19 February 2020
Molecular oxygen detected for the first time in another galaxy
... the team. In about one out of ten AGN, the black hole and accretion disk produce narrow beams of energetic particles which are ejected outwards at nearly the speed of light in opposite directions away from the...
29 April 2020
Scientists discover ancient nitrogen-bearing organic material in martian meteorite
... clean lab. Any possible surface contaminants were then removed with a scanning electron microscope-focused ion beam instrument to ensure the sample was not polluted with material that wasn’t of martian origin. As an additional control...
19 November 2021
New mission to search for habitable planets close to Earth announced
... by deploying a new type of optical diffractive pupil lense. Rather than concentrating the starlight into a tight focused beam as is usually done for optical systems, TOLIMAN has a strongly featured pattern, spreading starlight into a complex flower...
