22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
... when it comes to gravity, the theory still stands the test of time. Using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile – a device that looks like a machine straight out of the...
12 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx discovers ingredients for water on Bennu
Having arrived at its destination less than 10 days ago, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has already found the ingredients for water on Bennu – an indication that the much larger asteroid it broke apart from eons ago had liquid water present on it at ...
04 February 2019
The Moon is a mini-Earth suggests new research
... impactor that struck it. However new research from planetary scientist Kevin Righter of the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division (ARES) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, questions that assumption. Using a “bulk...
12 April 2019
Beresheet spacecraft crash lands on the Moon
.... The low-cost nature of the project has paved the way for further low-cost lunar exploration and with a $1 million now at SpaceIL’s disposal, Beresheet 2.0 could soon be in the making...
10 May 2019
Bezos unveils Moon mission with Blue Moon lander
When Blue Origin posted a photograph on Twitter a couple of weeks ago of the ship that British explorer Ernest Shackleton used on his famously difficult Antarctic expedition, and with a date reading “5.9.19” curiously written underneath, ...
04 October 2019
Have ancient filaments helped uncover the nature of dark matter?
...-cluster located about 12 billion light years away in the early Universe. Using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile and the Suprime-Cam at the Subaru telescope...
