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I have a new article published on my Across the Universe blog for The Guardian:
"Nasa says it will not regulate private missions to land people on Mars but would offer advice if it felt lives were in danger
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My latest article for The Guardian:
"Russia announces decision to halt export of crucial rocket engines in response to US sanctions over annexation of Crimea
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My latest piece for The Guardian is to report sad news:
"The pioneering scientist Prof Colin Pillinger has died aged 70, his family has said.
The planetary scientist, who was the driving force behind Britain's Mars lander Beagle 2, suffered a brain haemorrhage at his home in Cambridge and died in hospital.
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I have a new article published in the Discover pages of The Observer.
"Veggie 'plant pillows' could soon give astronauts on the International Space Station their first taste of space-grown lettuce
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I have a new article published by ESA:
"New Herschel results have given us a remarkable insight into the internal dynamics of two young galaxies. Surprisingly, they have shown that just a few billion years after the Big Bang, some galaxies were rotating in a mature way, seemingly having completed the accumulation of their gas reservoirs.
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I have a new story posted by ESA:
"A pair of supermassive black holes in orbit around one another have been spotted by XMM-Newton. This is the first time such a pair have been seen in an ordinary galaxy. They were discovered because they ripped apart a star when the space observatory happened to be looking in their direction.
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I have a new post on my Guardian blog. This one is not written by me but was kindly offered by planetary scientist, Peter Grindrod, to whom I am very grateful.
"On Wednesday, the European Space Agency starts considering potential landing sites on Mars for its 2018 ExoMars mission. Dr Peter Grindrod at Birkbeck, University of London, is one of the experts tasked with this job. He kindly contributed this guest blog
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I have a new posting on my Guardian blog:
"Today’s discovery of dwarf planet 2012 VP113 suggests that many planet-sized worlds lurk undetected beyond the orbit of Pluto, maybe even a giant ‘Super Earth’
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I have a new article published on the ESA website:
"The surface area of Mars is approximately 145 million square kilometres, almost the same area as the Earth's land masses. Imagine having to choose just one spot to land on and call home. Selecting the right place could mean the difference between achieving your scientific goals and failure. That's one of the tasks facing ESA and Roscosmos with their 2018 ExoMars mission.
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