Setting sail from the shores of the cosmic ocean: Humanity and the search for alien life
Ilke Boran explores the origins of life and identifies moons beyond Earth with the potential to support thriving biological systems.
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NASA’s DART mission
Ilka Boran reports on NASA’s recent DART mission, and discusses the future of planetary defence from asteroids.
ESA’s exploration of the Sun: What can ‘Solar Orbiter’ teach us?
At 5:03 CET on Monday 10th February, a NASA Atlas V4 11 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying with it ESA’s aptly named latest mission: Solar Orbiter. Within an hour, the spacecraft detached from the rocket, and began flying solo, carefully guided by a team on the ground in Germany. Since then, the…
Nancy Roman, ‘Mother of Hubble’ NASA astronomer, has died aged 93
By Amity Roberts Photograph: Nasa Archive/Alamy Nancy Roman, a boundary-breaking astronomer known as the ‘Mother of the Hubble’, died aged 93 on December 25th, 2018. Roman was NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy and supervised the planning and development of the Hubble Space Telescope that would change the way we see the universe. Roman was born…