12 July 2015
The 18 quintillion planets in ‘No Man’s Sky’: how Hello Games can expand understanding of space travel
...” was an immediate attention-grabber. The visuals of the game, exquisitely crafted, blending vintage representations of the cosmos with lush, modern design technique, made it memorable. A new gameplay trailer is equally mesmerising: Although there...
27 July 2015
Debating Kepler 452b, Yuri Milner, and the search for intelligent life
... generate a more-than-usual amount of discussion on the possibility of discovering life, even intelligent life, elsewhere in the cosmos. Of course, as Elizabeth Tasker at Gizmodo Australia notes, all we know about Kepler 452b comes from just two...
20 August 2015
The ISS and sustainability: new life for spare shuttle parts as NASA raids museums?
... – considering the growing problem of space debris, a sure sign that we should not be taking unsustainable practices to the cosmos.
08 September 2015
Is EGS8p7 the most distant galaxy from Earth?
..., has recently resulted in controversy). It is an absolutely fascinating instrument, and the way it gathers information about the cosmos differs radically from traditional methods of calculating redshift. You can read more about it here. For now...
26 January 2016
Scientists reveal a new way to test the origins of the Universe
... of the most profound questions that cosmologists have been eager to answer since we understood our place in the cosmos, is how did it all begin and was there anything before our known Universe? Now however, scientists...
19 April 2016
Gravitational waves poised to be pinpointed by gamma ray burst
... released earlier this year in February, the discovery rocked the science community and a new window on the cosmos was opened. The event, termed GW150914, was resolved to an area of approximately 600 square degrees in the southern...
