Mark Thompson
Anti-Satellite Weapons Will Threaten Everyone’s Access to Space
It’s a headline straight out of the movies yet the White House has recently confirmed it believes that Russia is…
Astroscale’s Satellite is Now Chasing Down a Real Piece of Space Debris
Space debris is a thing.. It seems whether we explore the Earth or space we leave rubbish in our wake.…
Look at How Much the Sun Has Changed in Just Two Years
The solar cycle has been reasonably well understood since 1843 when Samuel Schwabe spent 17 years observing the variation of…
What are the Differences Between Quasars and Microquasars?
Quasars are fascinating objects; supermassive black holes that are actively feasting on material from their accretion disks. The result is…
The SETI Ellipse Tells Us Where to Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations
Of all the questions that remain unanswered, the question of life in the Universe is surely the one that captures…
Next Generation Spacesuit Gets Tested in Weightlessness
Considerable effort goes into the design of space suits and space agencies across the world are always working on improvements…
Water Found on the Surface of an Asteroid
Our Solar System is a collection of objects from planets and moons to comets and asteroids. It's thought there are…
Could We Live Without Kilonovae?
It’s a classic statement shared at many public outreach events…’we are made of stardust’. It is true enough that the…
What Happened to All Those Boulders Blasted into Space by DART?
It was a $325 million dollar project that was intentionally smashed to smithereens in the interest of one day, saving…
CERN Wants to Build an Enormous New Atom Smasher: the Future Circular Collider
One of my favourite science and engineering facts is that an underground river was frozen to enable the Large Hadron…