Bacterial prospectors take on the final frontier
Bacteria currently used as catalysts in earthbound mining processes could one day be used to extract critical elements in space...
Tag: space
Cosmic ghost hunting: CNO neutrinos from the Sun detected for the first time
An international collaboration of particle physicists has announced the detection of solar neutrinos originating from the secondary fusion cycle powering...
How does space affect the body?
From microgravity to radiation, space is an extreme environment. Kate Summerson examines the impact this can have on the human...
Bacteria in space: why biological life support systems are the future of space travel
Image credit: Kruthika Sundaram One of the greatest challenges limiting our ability to send astronauts on long-haul missions is the...
Secrets of the water bear
Hypsibius dujardini, a type of tardigrade, imaged with scanning electron microscopy. Image credit: Willow Gabriel, Goldstein Lab via Wikimedia, CC...
NASA’s First Nigerien Scientist
Fadij Maina (left) and Eva Nogales, 2019. Image credit: Awojdyla, Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Fadij Maina (29) has become the...
NASA rover ‘Perseverance’ sets off in search of life on Mars
Perseverance and Ingenuity, artist’s concept. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Launched on 30 July, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is sending the Mars...
ESA & NASA Solar Orbiter captures first pictures of ‘campfires’ on the Sun
The first images taken by the spacecraft Solar Orbiter have been released, revealing many miniature solar flares near the surface...
Rewriting astronomy: have gravitational waves revealed an object to fill the mass gap?
An artist’s rendition of a mystery object in the ‘mass gap’ found by LIGO and Virgo. Image credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt...
