05 April 2019
Hayabusa2 probe 'bombs' asteroid to create a crater
... to the harsh environment of space over the billions of years this primordial rock has spent wandering the cosmos, Hayabusa-2 will be able to collect freshly unearthed fragments that have never seen the light of day thanks...
10 April 2019
Ring of fire around black hole revealed for first time
..., were yet more indirect proof that something huge but unseen were lurking potentially everywhere the cosmos. But now the impossible has been made possible. So just how difficult has it been to provide an image...
29 May 2019
Comets inspire new way to make breathable oxygen on other planets
... face is a shortage of molecular oxygen (O2) to breathe. Unfortunately for us, O2 is very hard to come by in the vast expanses of the cosmos. Not only that but in the frigid environment of outer space, or on planets with thin atmospheres, the heat...
26 June 2019
LightSail 2 gets ready to make its debut in space
... Planetary Society decided to tackle the project themselves. The Society’s first prototype of a solar sail in 2005, the Cosmos-1 project, unfortunately never reached space as the Volna rocket it was launched on failed shortly after liftoff and...
09 September 2019
Ancient light helps to unravel cosmic "dark age"
... in the history of the Universe because the first stars also significantly altered the chemical makeup of the cosmos. Peering into the Reionisation era is therefore a major quest for astronomers, but it also presents a number of challenges...
11 September 2019
First detection of atmospheric water vapour on 'super-Earth' in habitable zone
For nearly 30 years now, the Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionised humanity’s understanding of the cosmos, from helping to confirm the existence of supermassive black holes to determining the age of the Universe and now it ...
