January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
...Foundation sagas. This was Space for me! And so I grew up. I studied astronomy, space science and engineering at university and went on to a career in the...Lee has had a love affair with space and astronomy since his boyhood. During his 40-year career ...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... largest man-made object in space, but the implications are serious. Estimates of the sensitivity of the radio astronomy community’s flagship project, the Square Kilometre Array, suggest that it will have sufficient sensitivity to detect objects...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... the NASA Project Scientist for the SOFIA airborne observatory. She earned her PhD in physics and astronomy from Rutgers University in New Jersey. Her research focuses on observational astrochemistry and characterising the molecular interstellar...
14 August 2019
Protesters block asteroid detection safety work
...100 years, according to the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy. The asteroid got closer and closer – easier to see...August but staff had begun going around the blockade, and astronomy resumed. Tholen’s team trained 55 of the Canada-France-...
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... The Italian team state that detectors used in radio-astronomy are already swamped by satellite communication signals from space ... space community to think what means more: ground-based astronomy and traditional views of the night sky, or cheaper ...
08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
...envisage that this concept would unlock the potential for ground-breaking scientific discoveries in radio astronomy,” concludes Bandyopadhyay. In addition to Bandyopadhyay’s concept, NASA also awarded a Phase III grant to Slava Turyshev, a researcher...
