Mark Thompson

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…

11 months ago

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…

11 months ago

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…

11 months ago

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…

11 months ago

NASA Gives Dreamchaser the Shakedown

It’s been a while since NASA has had a spaceplane on the launchpad but this now feels closer than ever…

11 months ago

Gravitationally Lensed Supernovae are Another Way to Measure the Expansion of the Universe

Supernova are a fascinating phenomenon and have taught us much about the evolution of stars. The upcoming Nancy Grace Roman…

11 months ago

Perseverance Gives Us One Last Look at the Damaged Ingenuity Helicopter

Well I consider that a success; the first aircraft on another world surpassed all expectations. Ingenuity, the helicopter that has…

11 months ago

Could Forests Become Ultrahigh Energy Neutrino Detectors?

I really don’t know how to introduce this article. Neutrinos are elementary particles and are electrically neutral. They are produced…

11 months ago

Astronomers See 18 Examples of Stars Getting Torn Apart by Black Holes

Black holes have always held a special fascination for me ever since I was a geeky kid looking up at…

11 months ago

NASA Continues Testing its New Lunar Spacesuits

NASA’s Artemis mission objective is among other things, to get human beings back to the Moon. Much of the attention…

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