Ian O'Neill
Japanese Lab Kibo Attached to Space Station (Video)
The brand new Japanese science laboratory was attached to the International Space Station today (Tuesday). Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-124 mission…
Mars Settlement Pioneers Will Face Huge Psychological Challenges
Imagine you are on the crew of a Mars mission and you fall out with a fellow crew member. You…
How do you Model the Earth’s Magnetic Field? Build your own Baby Planet…
The Earth's magnetic field is quite a mystery. How is it generated? How does it remain so stable? We have…
Harvesting Solar Power from Space
In a new report, the viability of sending solar panels into space to collect a vast quantity of uninterrupted energy…
Warm Coronal Loops May Hold the Key to Hot Solar Atmosphere
Coronal loops, the elegant and bright structures threading through the solar surface and into the solar atmosphere, are key to…
Temperature Conditions of a Supernova Recreated in UK Laboratory
Scientists are one step closer to attaining the ultimate goal: producing temperatures high enough to sustain fusion, the reaction that…
US Wants to Defend Satellites From Laser Attack
So what do you do if someone fires a powerful laser at your satellite? The optics on the satellite will…
Japanese Special Brew: Space Beer
Well, the title is a little misleading. It should read something like, "Japanese Scientists Brew Beer from Barley that Spent…
Eta Carinae and the “Cosmic Cauldron” in Unprecedented Detail – New Images from the VLT
To celebrate the Very Large Telescope's (VLT) 10th birthday on Tuesday, it was us who received the gifts. The European…
What is the Fastest Spinning Object in the Solar System? Near-Earth Asteroid 2008 HJ
A British astronomer has discovered a strange spinning object. The fact that it is spinning in itself is not strange,…