On 9 January 2024, the Einstein probe was launched, its mission to study the night sky in X-rays. The first…
Anyone familiar with astronomy will know that galaxies come in a fairly limited range of shapes, typically; spiral, elliptical, barred-spiral…
Life on Earth would not be possible without food, water, light, a breathable atmosphere and surprisingly, a magnetic field. Without…
When I heard about this I felt an amused twinge of envy. Over the last year I have been using…
Any event in the cosmos generates gravitational waves, the bigger the event, the more disturbance. Events where black holes and…
Space travel and exploration was never going to be easy. Failures are sadly all too common but it's wonderful to…
It’s difficult to actually visualise a universe that is changing. Things tend to happen at snails pace albeit with the…
We are all very familiar with the concept of the Earth’s magnetic field. It turns out that most objects in…
Solar Sails are an enigmatic and majestic way to travel across the gulf of space. Drawing an analogy to the…
Well over 5,000 planets have been found orbiting other star systems. One of the satellites hunting for them is TESS,…