What the universe looks like when viewed with radio eyes
Oct 27, 2016 05:43 am UTC| Science
To the naked eye, the universe we can see on a clear night is dotted with thousands of stars, but what would it look like if human eyes could see radio waves? Deep in the Western Australian outback a radio telescope is...
What the universe looks like when viewed with radio eyes
Oct 27, 2016 05:43 am UTC| Science
To the naked eye, the universe we can see on a clear night is dotted with thousands of stars, but what would it look like if human eyes could see radio waves? Deep in the Western Australian outback a radio telescope is...
Cosmic coincidence: the International Space Station passes by Venus and Saturn
Oct 27, 2016 05:21 am UTC| Science
Look west in the evening sky and Venus is almost impossible to miss, shining with a brilliant steady light. In fact, it is so bright its often mistaken for a plane. On the evening of Friday October 28, Venus is going to...
Cosmic coincidence: the International Space Station passes by Venus and Saturn
Oct 27, 2016 05:21 am UTC| Science
Look west in the evening sky and Venus is almost impossible to miss, shining with a brilliant steady light. In fact, it is so bright its often mistaken for a plane. On the evening of Friday October 28, Venus is going to...
There’s no ‘Mars curse’ – it's just very hard to land there
Oct 25, 2016 17:52 pm UTC| Science
Hopes of another successful landing on Mars were dashed last week when the Schiaparelli probe went missing in action during its descent onto the Red Planet. Pictures released over the weekend from NASAs Mars...
There’s no ‘Mars curse’ – it's just very hard to land there
Oct 25, 2016 17:52 pm UTC| Science
Hopes of another successful landing on Mars were dashed last week when the Schiaparelli probe went missing in action during its descent onto the Red Planet. Pictures released over the weekend from NASAs Mars...
To uncover the secrets of exoplanets, try listening to them
Oct 24, 2016 04:35 am UTC| Science
From rainfall patterns to share price performance, the usual way to analyse any data that shows something changing over a period of time is to put it into a graphic. Making data visual usually makes it much easier to...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight