Mark Thompson
Research Work Begins on the Habitable Worlds Observatory
NASA are planning on building a telescope to hunt for habitable worlds. The imaginatively named ‘Habitable Worlds Observatory’ is at…
What Impact Does Ozone Have on an Exoplanet?
As we discover more and more exoplanets - and the current total is in excess of 5,200 - we continue…
A New Way to Make Precise Maps of the Lunar Surface
There was a time when maps of the Moon were created from telescopic observations and drawings. Indeed Sir Patrick Moore…
South Korea is Planning to Send a Mission to Mars by 2045
It is truly wonderful to see so many nations aspiring to space exploration and trips to the Moon. Earlier this…
Webb Finds the Farthest Galaxy Ever Seen (So Far)
There are some things that never cease to amaze me and the discovery of distant objects is one of them.…
Hot Gas is Being Vented Away from the Center of the Milky Way
Studying gas in the Universe is no easy task. We often look to ‘non-visible’ wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum such…
There’s Another, More Boring Explanation for those Dyson Sphere Candidate Stars
Dyson Spheres have been a tantalising digression in the hunt for alien intelligence. Just recently seven stars have been identified…
Hundreds of Massive Stars Have Simply Disappeared
The lifecycle of a star is regularly articulated as formation taking place inside vast clouds of gas and dust and…
Volcanoes Were Erupting on Venus in the 1990s
Start talking about Venus and immediately my mind goes to those images from the Venera space probes that visited Venus…
Toxic Perchlorate on Mars Could Make Life More Interesting
The search for life in the Universe has fascinated humans for centuries. Mars has of course been high on the…