Ben Biggs

Ben Biggs

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Ben has spent many, many years in science and tech publishing, since long before Curiosity was a just a glint in NASA's eye. He's also done some hard time in crime journalism, but that's another story. He likes space A LOT - mostly, reading or writing about what can happen when insanely clever people with lofty ambitions get billion-dollar budgets to play with.

Articles by: Ben Biggs

Our Sun is a main sequence star, a G-type yellow dwarf that has an estimated total lifetime of around 10 billion years before it leaves its main sequence phase.

Main sequence stars: definition & life cycle

By Nola Taylor Tillman, Ben Biggs last updated

reference Most stars are main sequence stars that fuse hydrogen to form helium in their cores - including our sun.

The largest satellite in orbit around Earth is the International Space Station.

What is a satellite?

By Elizabeth Howell, Ben Biggs published

reference Artificial satellites from Earth have only populated space since 1957, but there are now hundreds of thousands of objects from our planet in orbit.

The four fundamental forces of nature are at the root of every interaction in the universe, including the Coalsack nebula, Caldwell 99

The four fundamental forces of nature

By Jeremy Rehm, Ben Biggs published

reference The forces and interactions we see and experience every day seem infinite. But they all stem from just four fundamental forces of nature.

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