With the successful launch of the Ariane 5 VA245 early on the morning of October 19th, a combination of gravity assists and a powerful solar electric propulsion system will speed BepiColombo towards Mercury, the least explored of our solar system's terrestrial planets! It will arrive...
The discovery of an icy ball 300km in diameter on the outer edge of the solar system has expanded our knowledge of the outer solar system. 2015 TG387, nicknamed The Goblin because it happened around Halloween of 2015 takes 40,000 years to orbit the sun,...
SPACELIST ALERT! With the 100th successful launch of the Ariane 5 on Tuesday we're now counting down to JAXA and ESA's thrilling Bepicolombo mission to Mercury! Is this mission playlist hot enough for you? And if you're curious about upcoming exploration of our solar system's least-explored...
Coming at you like an Ariane 5, it's the Sunday Spacelist! We're sure it's only a matter of time before we see a mohawk up on the ISS, so here's a soundtrack to match - from the Misfits to Devo, it's...
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft, it's time for our Sunday Spacelist! In honour of our big win at the Progressive Music Awards, we thought we'd keep it in 7/8 with tunes hand-picked by Prog magazine editor Jerry Ewing! #spacerocks #progrocks https://open.spotify.com/user/jj0oczbmhtlalwqb5lnnsqnkt/playlist/4W12jJ734v1394bG1EUySH?si=DWZvekW8Qm2h8nqIMN9yUw...
Cosmic Beats is our latest Sunday Spacelist on Spotify, chosen by plasma-physicist Matt Taylor, project scientist on ESA's Rosetta comet-landing mission, which performed a detailed study of comet 67P. The mission was launched on 2 March 2004, on a 10-year journey towards comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. En...
It feels like yesterday that we were asked to join the Music and Film Stage at Latitude Festival, and many, many people joined us for a fascinating discussion of the future of space exploration for a little panel we called Space: The New Final Frontier,...
Announcing our first-ever Sunday Spacelist, where we pull together space-inspired tunes and beam them out into the cosmos via our frankly excellent Spotify account. First up is a Mars-themes collection of tunes inspired by the recent discovery of a liquid water lake underneath Mars' south...