Author: Andrew Coates Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk has a vision for colonising Mars, based on a big rocket, nuclear explosions and an infrastructure … Read More
The James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers’ new eye in the sky, has already captured images of the most distant galaxies ever seen. Now, NASA’s powerful infrared observatory is providing breathtaking views of our own cosmic neighborhood in snapshots released on … Read More
NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket headed back to the launch pad Tuesday night (Aug. 19) to take a step closer to a historic lunar mission. Artemis 1 is an uncrewed test flight of the massive Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket … Read More
Up until now, NASA has never paid too much attention to Uranus – but now the space agency wants to take a good, long look. And one of the things it might be investigating is all that gas. A NASA … Read More
Authors Chris Impey – University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona Daniel Apai – Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona The ingredients for life are spread throughout the universe. While Earth is the only known place in … Read More
A brand new telescope will be the first to look for colliding black holes and neutron stars in search of gravitational wave sources. Gravitational waves, or ripples in spacetime caused by the universe’s most energetic collisions, were discovered in 2015 … Read More