11 January 2016
Space Rock Legend David Bowie Dies Aged 69
David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in Brixton, south London, in 1947. In 1953 the family moved to Bromley, Kent, where he attended the Burnt Ash junior school and ...
05 August 2016
Rio 2016 Summer Olympics Games, Brought to You by Your Local Satellite
..., the global audience of the Olympic Games is billions of viewers around the world. The previous Summer Olympics (London, 2012) were broadcast to over 3.6 billion people in 220 countries and territories. The Rio 2016 Olympic Games...
25 August 2016
Earth-sized planet found around our nearest neighbouring star
... Observatory's 3.6-meter telescope at La Silla. The team of astronomers, led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé of Queen Mary, University of London, used HARPS as part of an ongoing project to observe Proxima Centauri called the Pale Red Dot campaign. "The...
09 June 2017
Key ingredients to life found around Sun-like stars
... another team; Niels Ligterink at the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands and Audrey Coutens at University College London, United Kingdom. Along with a spectrographic analysis of the protostar’s light to determine the chemical constituents around...
